Create a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for combined EEZ/country boundaries
convertEEZCountries(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)
Name of the dataset being created.
Logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file.
Logical specifying whether to create "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%.
A world EEZ/countries shapefile is converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
with additional columns of data. To use this function, the file
"EEZ_land_union_v3_202003.zip" must be downloaded into the user's spatial
directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir()
. The resulting file
will be created in this same spatial data directory.
setSpatialDataDir