Simplified world country polygons
wrld_simpl.RdThe object loaded is a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object containing a slightly modified version of Bjoern Sandvik's improved version of world_borders.zip - TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip dataset from the Mapping Hacks geodata site. The country Polygons objects and the data slot data frame row numbers have been set to the ISO 3166 three letter codes.
data(wrld_simpl)Format
The format is: Formal class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots; the data clot contains a data.frame with 246 obs. of 11 variables:
- FIPS
factor of FIPS country codes
- ISO2
factor of ISO 2 character country codes
- ISO3
factor of ISO 3 character country codes
- UN
integer vector of UN country codes
- NAME
Factor of country names
- AREA
integer vector of area values
- POP2005
integer vector of population in 2005
- REGION
integer vector of region values
- SUBREGION
integer vector of subregion values
- LON
numeric vector of longitude label points
- LAT
numeric vector of latitude label points
The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.
Source
Originally “http://mappinghacks.com/data/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip”, now available from https://github.com/nasa/World-Wind-Java/tree/master/WorldWind/testData/shapefiles
