Administrative boundaries

Get administrative boundaries for any country in the world. Data are read from files that are downloaded if necessary.

gadm(country, level=1, path, version="latest", resolution=1, ...)

Arguments

country

character. Three-letter ISO code or full country name. If you provide multiple names they are all downloaded and rbind-ed together

level

numeric. The level of administrative subdivision requested. (starting with 0 for country, then 1 for the first level of subdivision)

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

version

character. Either "latest" or GADM version number (can be "3.6", "4.0" or "4.1")

resolution

integer indicating the level of detail. Only for version 4.1. It should be either 1 (high) or 2 (low)

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

See also

world

Value

SpatVector

Details

The data are from https://gadm.org

Examples

bel <- gadm(country="BEL", level=1, path=tempdir())
#> Cached as: /tmp/Rtmpj1ul8r/gadm/gadm41_BEL_1_pk.rds