MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertCARBAirBasins: Convert California Air Resources Board basin shapefiles

Description

Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for CARB air basins,

Usage

convertCARBAirBasins(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

Arguments

nameOnly

Logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file.

simplify

Logical specifying whether to create "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%.

Details

A California air basin shapefile is downloaded 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().

The source data is from 2004.

References

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov//ei/gislib/gislib.htm

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getVariable