Country Lookup Class

Country Lookup Class

Country Lookup Class

Details

Provides country name to geometry and bounding box lookup using Natural Earth data.

Public fields

cache_dir

Directory for caching country data

Methods

Public methods

• CountryLookup$new()

• CountryLookup$get_country_geometry()

• CountryLookup$get_country_bbox()

• CountryLookup$find_country_for_point()

• CountryLookup$list_countries()

• CountryLookup$clone()

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Method new()

Create a new CountryLookup object

Usage

CountryLookup$new(cache_dir = NULL)

Arguments

cache_dir

Directory for caching (default: user cache)

Returns

A new CountryLookup object

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Method get_country_geometry()

Get the geometry for a country

Usage

CountryLookup$get_country_geometry(country_name)

Arguments

country_name

Country name (case-insensitive)

Returns

sf geometry object

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Method get_country_bbox()

Get the bounding box for a country

Usage

CountryLookup$get_country_bbox(country_name)

Arguments

country_name

Country name

Returns

sf bbox object

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Method find_country_for_point()

Find which country contains a point

Usage

CountryLookup$find_country_for_point(lon, lat)

Arguments

lon

Longitude

lat

Latitude

Returns

Country name or NA if not found

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Method list_countries()

List all available countries

Usage

CountryLookup$list_countries()

Returns

Character vector of country names

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

CountryLookup$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.