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Get natural earth world coastline

Source: R/ne_coastline.R
ne_coastline.Rd

returns world coastline at specified scale

Usage

ne_coastline(scale = 110L, returnclass = c("sf", "sv"))

Arguments

scale

The scale of map to return, one of `110`, `50`, `10` or `small`, `medium`, `large`.

returnclass

A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from `sf`, the default) or "sv" for a `SpatVector` (from `terra`).

Value

An object of class `sf` for simple feature (from `sf`, the default) or `SpatVector` (from `terra`).

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if `load = FALSE`.

If the data is to be loaded into memory (`load = TRUE`), the download will be handled using the GDAL virtual file system, allowing direct access to the data without writing it to disk.

See also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthdata")) {
  coast <- ne_coastline()
  plot(coast)
}
#> Loading required namespace: rnaturalearthdata