SimpleCountries is a simplified world borders dataset suitable
for global maps and quick spatial searches. This dataset is distributed with
the package and is can be used with getCountry()
,
getCountryCode()
and getCountryName()
when restricting searches
to land-based locations.
SimpleCountries
A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 246 records and 6 columns of data.
This dataset is equivalent to TMWorldBordersSimple but with fewer columns of data.
convertTMWorldBordersSimple
This dataset was generated on 2020-11-19 by running:
library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial")convertTMWorldBordersSimple()
loadSpatialData("TMWorldBordersSimple")