spanishoddata (version 0.2.2)

spod_get_zones_v2: Retrieves the zones v2 data

Description

This function retrieves the zones data from the specified data directory. It can retrieve either "distritos" or "municipios" zones data.

Usage

spod_get_zones_v2(
  zones = c("districts", "dist", "distr", "distritos", "municipalities", "muni",
    "municip", "municipios", "lua", "large_urban_areas", "gau", "grandes_areas_urbanas"),
  data_dir = spod_get_data_dir(),
  quiet = FALSE
)

Value

An sf object (Simple Feature collection) with 4 fields:

id

A character vector containing the unique identifier for each zone, to be matched with identifiers in the tabular data.

name

A character vector with the name of the zone.

population

A numeric vector representing the population of each zone (as of 2022).

geometry

A MULTIPOLYGON column containing the spatial geometry of each zone, stored as an sf object. The geometry is projected in the ETRS89 / UTM zone 30N coordinate reference system (CRS), with XY dimensions.

Arguments

zones

The zones for which to download the data. Can be "districts" (or "dist", "distr", or the original Spanish "distritos") or "municipalities" (or "muni", "municip", or the original Spanish "municipios").

data_dir

The directory where the data is stored.

quiet

A logical value indicating whether to suppress messages. Default is FALSE.