wrld_simpl
Simplified world country polygons
The object loaded is a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object containing a slightly modified version of Bjoern Sandvik's improved version of world\_borders.zip - TM\_WORLD\_BORDERS\_SIMPL-0.2.zip dataset from the Mapping Hacks geodata site. The country Polygons objects and the data slot data frame row numbers have been set to the ISO 3166 three letter codes.
- Keywords
- datasets
Usage
data(wrld_simpl)Format
The format is: Formal class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots; the data clot contains a data.frame with 246 obs. of 11 variables:
- FIPS
factor of FIPS country codes
- ISO2
factor of ISO 2 character country codes
- ISO3
factor of ISO 3 character country codes
- UN
integer vector of UN country codes
- NAME
Factor of country names
- AREA
integer vector of area values
- POP2005
integer vector of population in 2005
- REGION
integer vector of region values
- SUBREGION
integer vector of subregion values
- LON
numeric vector of longitude label points
- LAT
numeric vector of latitude label points
The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.
Examples
# NOT RUN {
data(wrld_simpl)
plot(wrld_simpl)
# }