Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for simple world divisions
convertTMWorldBordersSimple(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 borders shapefile is downloaded and converted to a
SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created
in the package SpatialDataDir
which is set with setSpatialDataDir()
.
This shapefile is a simplified version of the TMWorldBorders shapefile. Users may wish to use a higher resolution dataset when plotting.
setSpatialDataDir
getCountry, getCountryCode