spData (version 0.3.5)

world: World country polygons

Description

The object loaded is a sf object containing a world map data from Natural Earth with a few variables from World Bank

Usage

world

Arguments

Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 177 obs. of 11 variables:

  • iso_a2 character vector of ISO 2 character country codes

  • name_long character vector of country names

  • continent character vector of continent names

  • region_un character vector of region names

  • subregion character vector of subregion names

  • type character vector of type names

  • area_km2 integer vector of area values

  • pop integer vector of population in 2014

  • lifeExp integer vector of life expectancy at birth in 2014

  • gdpPercap integer vector of per-capita GDP in 2014

  • geom sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.

See Also

See the rnaturalearth package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rnaturalearth

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(world)
  # or
  world <- st_read(system.file("shapes/world.gpkg", package="spData"))

  plot(world)
}
# }

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