get_data function

Get data from within the package

returns world country polygons at a specified scale, used by ne_countries()

get_data(
  scale = 110,
  type = c("countries", "map_units", "sovereignty", "tiny_countries")
)

Arguments

• scale: The scale of map to return, one of 110, 50, 10 or small, medium, large.
• type: country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries'

Returns

A sf object.

Details

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

Examples

## Not run:

spdf_world <- ne_download(scale = 110, type = "countries")

plot(spdf_world)
plot(ne_download(type = "populated_places"))

# reloading from the saved file in the same session with same arguments

spdf_world2 <- ne_load(scale = 110, type = "countries")

# download followed by load from specified directory will work across sessions
spdf_world <- ne_download(scale = 110, type = "countries", destdir = getwd())
spdf_world2 <- ne_load(scale = 110, type = "countries", destdir = getwd())

# for raster, here an example with Manual Shaded Relief (MSR) download & load

rst <- ne_download(scale = 50, type = "MSR_50M", category = "raster", destdir = getwd())

# load after having downloaded
rst <- ne_load(
  scale = 50, type = "MSR_50M", category = "raster", destdir =
    getwd()
)

# plot
library(terra)
terra::plot(rst)
# end dontrun
## End(Not run)

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.