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MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertEPARegions: Convert EPA Region shapefiles

Description

Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for EPA Regions

Usage

convertEPARegions(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

An EPA region boundary 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 2017.

References

https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c670540796584c72b4f59b676ccabe6a

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getVariable