ne_coastline function

Get natural earth world coastline

returns world coastline at specified scale

ne_coastline(scale = 110, returnclass = c("sf", "sv"))

Arguments

• scale: The scale of map to return, one of 110, 50, 10 or small, medium, large.
• returnclass: A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from sf, the default) or "sv" for a SpatVector (from terra).

Returns

An object of class sf for simple feature (from sf, the default) or SpatVector (from terra).

Details

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

Examples

if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthdata")) {
  coast <- ne_coastline()
  plot(coast)
}

See Also

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