returns world country polygons at a specified scale, or points of tiny_countries
Usage
ne_countries(
scale = 110,
type = "countries",
continent = NULL,
country = NULL,
geounit = NULL,
sovereignty = NULL,
returnclass = c("sp", "sf")
)Arguments
- scale
scale of map to return, one of
110,50,10or'small','medium','large'- type
country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries'
- continent
a character vector of continent names to get countries from.
- country
a character vector of country names.
- geounit
a character vector of geounit names.
- sovereignty
a character vector of sovereignty names.
- returnclass
'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features
Examples
spdf_world <- ne_countries()
spdf_africa <- ne_countries(continent = "africa")
spdf_france <- ne_countries(country = "france")
if (require(sp)) {
plot(spdf_world)
plot(spdf_africa)
plot(spdf_france)
}
# get as sf
if (require(sf)) {
sf_world <- ne_countries(returnclass = "sf")
plot(sf_world)
}
#> Loading required package: sf
#> Linking to GEOS 3.10.2, GDAL 3.4.1, PROJ 8.2.1; sf_use_s2() is TRUE
#> Warning: plotting the first 10 out of 168 attributes; use max.plot = 168 to plot all
if (require(rnaturalearthdata) & require(sp)) {
spdf_tiny_countries <- ne_countries(type = "tiny_countries", scale = 50)
plot(spdf_tiny_countries)
}
#> Loading required package: rnaturalearthdata
