Download IPBES World Countries Boundaries

Source: R/get_basemap.R

This function downloads shapefile of world countries boundaries as defined by IPBES (available at https://zenodo.org/record/3928281). Zip file is downloaded in the folder path ('data/ipbes-regions' by default) and files are extracted in the same folder. If this folder doesn't exist it will be created.

Note: if you delete the ZIP file (after files extraction) and re-run this function, the ZIP file will be downloaded again. It this is what you want do forget to use force = TRUE to erase previous files.

Original Projection System: WGS84

get_basemap(path = here::here("data", "ipbes-regions"), force = FALSE)

Arguments

path

the folder to download and extract zip file
force

a logical value. If TRUE will erase previously downloaded files. Default is FALSE.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## Download and extract ZIP ----
get_basemap()

## Check ----
list.files(here::here("data", "ipbes-regions"))

## Re-run function ----
get_basemap()              # No download (ZIP already present)
get_basemap(force = TRUE)  # Erase previous files
}