gamair (version 1.0-2)

coast: European coastline from -11 to 0 East and from 43 to 59 North

Description

The data are longitudes (degrees E) and latitudes (degrees N) defining points that can be joined up to get the European coastline in the rectangle (-11E,43N)-(0E,59N). Discontinuous sections of coast are separated by NA's.

Usage

data(coast)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 2 columns.

lon

Longitude in degrees East for points used to define the coast.

lat

Latitude in degrees North for points used to define the coast.

Details

lon, lat together define the co-ordinates of points that can be joined up in order to plot the coastline. The original data come from the NOAA www site given below, but have been substantially thinned, to a much lower resultion than the source.

References

Originally from... http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data(coast)
# plot the entire coast .....
plot(coast$lon,coast$lat,type="l")
# or draw it clipped to  whatever the current plot is....
lines(coast$lon,coast$lat,col="blue")
# }

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