Administrative boundaries

Get the borders for all the countries in the world. Data are read from files that are downloaded if necessary.

world(resolution=5, level=0, path, version="latest", ...)

Arguments

resolution

integer between 1 and 5 indicating the level of detail. 1 is high 5 is low

level

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

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

version

character. Only "3.6" is currently supported

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

Value

SpatVector

See also

gadm

Details

The data are from https://gadm.org

Examples

w <- world(path=tempdir())
#> Cached as: /tmp/Rtmpj1ul8r/gadm/gadm36_adm0_r5_pk.rds