raster
packageMap of German states (Bundeslaender) from GADM through the raster
package
Formal class 'SpatialPolygons' [package "sp"] with 4 slots
Obtained with the code:
DEU1 <- raster::getData("GADM", country="DEU", level=1)
DEU <- rgeos::gSimplify(DEU1, tol=0.02, topologyPreserve=FALSE)
raster::plot(DEU1)
raster::plot(DEU)
save(DEU, file="data/DEU.rda")
tools::resaveRdaFiles("data/DEU.rda")