MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.6.4)

convertWorldTimezones: Convert Timezone Shapefile

Description

A world timezone shapefile is downloaded from http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/ and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir().

Usage

convertWorldTimezones(nameOnly = FALSE)

Arguments

nameOnly

logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

References

http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

convertWikipediaTimezoneTable