ne_file_name function

return a natural earth filename based on arguments

returns a string that can then be used to download the file.

ne_file_name(
  scale = 110,
  type = "countries",
  category = c("cultural", "physical", "raster"),
  full_url = FALSE
)

Arguments

• scale: The scale of map to return, one of 110, 50, 10 or small, medium, large.
• type: type of natural earth file to download one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'map_subunits', 'sovereignty', 'states' OR the portion of any natural earth vector url after the scale and before the . e.g. for 'ne_50m_urban_areas.zip' this would be 'urban_areas' OR the raster filename e.g. for 'MSR_50M.zip' this would be 'MSR_50M'
• category: one of natural earth categories : 'cultural', 'physical', 'raster'
• full_url: whether to return just the filename (default) or the full URL needed for download

Returns

string

Details

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

Examples

ne_name <- ne_file_name(scale = 110, type = "countries")
ne_url <- ne_file_name(scale = 110, type = "countries", full_url = TRUE)

See Also

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