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Checks the Natural Earth Github repository for current vector layers and provides the file name required in the type argument of ne_download.

Usage

ne_find_vector_data(
  scale = 110,
  category = c("cultural", "physical"),
  getmeta = FALSE
)

Arguments

scale

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

category

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

getmeta

whether to get url of the metadata for each layer

Value

dataframe with two variables: layer and metadata

Details

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

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 (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
ne_find_vector_data(scale = 10, category = "physical")
} # }