R: Return country names at specified locations

getCountry

R Documentation

Return country names at specified locations

Description

Uses spatial comparison to determine which country polygons the locations fall into and returns the country name for those polygons.

If allData = TRUE, additional data is returned.

Usage

getCountry(
  longitude = NULL,
  latitude = NULL,
  datasetName = "SimpleCountriesEEZ",
  countryCodes = NULL,
  allData = FALSE,
  useBuffering = FALSE
)

Arguments

`longitude`	Vector of longitudes in decimal degrees East.
`latitude`	Vector of latitudes in decimal degrees North.
`datasetName`	Name of spatial dataset to use.
`countryCodes`	Vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.
`allData`	Logical specifying whether a full dataframe should be returned.
`useBuffering`	Logical flag specifying the use of location buffering to find the nearest polygon if no target polygon is found.

Value

Vector of English language country names.

References

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/

Examples

library(MazamaSpatialUtils)

longitude <- seq(0, 50)
latitude <- seq(0, 50)

getCountry(longitude, latitude)