Helper functions to retrieve the world map, a world polygon, and create grid centers. — worldMap • INLAspacetime

Retrieve the map of the countries

Usage

worldMap(
  crs = "+proj=moll +units=km",
  scale = "medium",
  returnclass = c("sf", "sv")
)

Arguments

crs: a string with the projection. Default is the Mollweide projection with units in kilometers.
scale: The scale of map to return. Please see the help of 'ne_countries' function from the 'rnaturalearth' package.
returnclass: A string determining the class of the spatial object to return. Please see the help of 'ne_countries' function from the 'rnaturalearth' package.

References

The land and ocean maps are obtained with the 'rnaturalearth' package.