MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertTerrestrialEcoregions: Convert Terrestrial Ecoregion Shapefile

Description

Create a SpacialPolygonsDataFrame for Terrestrial Ecoregions.

Usage

convertTerrestrialEcoregions(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 Terrestrial Ecoregions 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().

References

https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getVariable