world {spData} | R Documentation

## World country polygons

### Description

The object loaded is a `sf` object containing a world map data from Natural Earth with a few variables from World Bank

### Usage

    world

### Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 177 obs. of 11 variables:

- iso_a2 character vector of ISO 2 character country codes

- name_long character vector of country names

- continent character vector of continent names

- region_un character vector of region names

- subregion character vector of subregion names

- type character vector of type names

- area_km2 integer vector of area values

- pop integer vector of population in 2014

- lifeExp integer vector of life expectancy at birth in 2014

- gdpPercap integer vector of per-capita GDP in 2014

- geom sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.

### Source

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

http://data.worldbank.org/

### See Also

See the rnaturalearth package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rnaturalearth

### Examples

    if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
      library(sf)
      data(world)
      # or
      world <- st_read(system.file("shapes/world.gpkg", package="spData"))

      plot(world)
    }

[Package spData version 0.3.0 Index]