returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries
Usage
ne_states(
country = NULL,
geounit = NULL,
iso_a2 = NULL,
spdf = NULL,
returnclass = c("sp", "sf")
)
Arguments
- country
a character vector of country names.
- geounit
a character vector of geounit names.
- iso_a2
a character vector of iso_a2 country codes
- spdf
an optional alternative states map
- returnclass
'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features
Examples
# comparing using country and geounit to filter
if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthhires")) {
spdf_france_country <- ne_states(country = "france")
spdf_france_geounit <- ne_states(geounit = "france")
if (require(sp)) {
plot(spdf_france_country)
plot(spdf_france_geounit)
plot(ne_states(country = "united kingdom"))
plot(ne_states(geounit = "england"))
}
}
#> Loading required namespace: rnaturalearthhires