Natural Earth (NaturalEarth)
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
Available variables
land - 10m land polygons including major islands
minorislands - 10 m land polygons of minor islands
The dataset downloaded from here.
Land
10m land polygons including major islands.
This dataset requires the ‘rgdal’ package to load.
Access the land polygons variable (“land”) of the “NaturalEarth” dataset with a fetch() function:
land <- fetch("NaturalEarth", "land")
Additional arguments
The argument dir represents the path to temporary directory.
The argument verbose (logical) determines should feedback be output to the console?
The argument na logical flag to trigger the removal of placeholder values - it also forces the dataset in the memory.
land <- fetch(dat = "NaturalEarth", var = "land", dir, verbose=FALSE, na = TRUE)
Resolution
10.0
Archive size
NaturalEarth_land_4-1-0_10:6.28 MB
Version
4-1-0
Licence
Public domain
Minor islands
10 m land polygons of minor islands.
This dataset requires the ‘rgdal’ package to load.
Access the land polygons of minor islands variable (“minorislands”) of the “NaturalEarth” dataset with a fetch() function:
minorislands <- fetch("NaturalEarth", "minorislands")
Additional arguments
The argument dir represents the path to temporary directory.
The argument verbose (logical) determines should feedback be output to the console?
minorislands <- fetch(dat = "NaturalEarth", var = "minorlands", dir, verbose=FALSE)
Resolution
10.0
Archive size
NaturalEarth_minorislands_4-1-0_10: 864 KB
Version
4-1-0
Licence
Public domain
Reference
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data.