coastline.maritimes {oce} | R Documentation |
A sample coastline dataset, showing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and part of New Brunswick. This is the oce author's stomping ground, and so he feels compelled to apologize for the error at the Strait of Canso.
data(coastline.maritimes)
Dan Kelley Dan.Kelley@Dal.Ca
The data were extracted from the NOAA site, specifying the Splus
data type, and read with read.coastline
.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/
Coastlines may be read with
read.coastline
, or created with
as.coastline
. Another
sample coastline file is coastline.halifax
.