[R-sig-Geo] How to get the coordinates (latitude/longitude) of a continent outline?

[Ben Tupper]

Hi,

There is a whole world of options (sorry for the lame pun!), but I would recommend checking out ROpenSci's rnaturalearth package

https://ropensci.org/tutorials/rnaturalearth_tutorial/ <https://ropensci.org/tutorials/rnaturalearth_tutorial/>

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnaturalearth <https://cran.r-project.org/package=rnaturalearth>

Ben

> On Feb 2, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Sohrab Abbasnejad via R-sig-Geo <r-sig-geo using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I would like to have the list of coordinates of the boundary (outline) of a continent (Africa). The "map" function from the "maps" package gives the coordinates for country outlines, but not the for the continents.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea where I can find the data?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Cheers,
> Sohrab
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Ben Tupper
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