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return a natural earth filename based on arguments

Source: R/ne_file_name.R
ne_file_name.Rd

returns a string that can then be used to download the file.

Usage

ne_file_name(
  scale = 110L,
  type = "countries",
  category = c("cultural", "physical", "raster")
)

Arguments

scale

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

type

type of natural earth file to download one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'map_subunits', 'sovereignty', 'states' OR the portion of any natural earth vector url after the scale and before the . e.g. for 'ne_50m_urban_areas.zip' this would be 'urban_areas' OR the raster filename e.g. for 'MSR_50M.zip' this would be 'MSR_50M'

category

one of natural earth categories : 'cultural', 'physical', 'raster'

Value

string

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

ne_url <- ne_file_name(scale = 110, type = "countries")