oce (version 0.8-3)

coastlineWorld: World coastline

Description

World coastline

Usage

data(coastlineWorld)

source

http://thematicmapping.org, which provides the data in a zipfile containing the above-named .shp file, covered by a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Details

The longitudes are in the range from -180 to 180 degrees, i.e. western longitudes have negative values. Created by downloading the file TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.zip from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php, then unzipping and running the following: coastlineWorld <- read.coastline.shapefile("TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp") save(coastlineWorld, file="coastlineWorld.rda", compress="xz")

See Also

The documentation for coastline-class explains the structure of coastline objects, and also outlines the other functions dealing with them.