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MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertUSIndianLands: Convert Indian Lands Shapefile

Description

Create a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for Native American land.

Usage

convertUSIndianLands(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 Native American land 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 2014.

References

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d150464e4b0941bde5b7658

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getVariable