geobounds: Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'
Provides tools to download individual country boundaries and global composite boundaries from 'geoBoundaries' <https://www.geoboundaries.org/> across multiple administrative ('ADM') levels. Returns boundaries as 'sf' objects for mapping and spatial analysis. Runfola et al. (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866> describe the underlying database.
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli, countrycode, dplyr, httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), sf, tools, utils |
| Suggests: | ggplot2, jsonlite, knitr, quarto, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble, withr |
| Published: | 2026-07-08 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.geobounds |
| Author: | Diego Hernangómez 
[aut, cre, cph],
William and Mary geoLab  [cph]
(for the geoBoundaries project) |
| Maintainer: | Diego Hernangómez <diego.hernangomezherrero at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Copyright: | Package code is MIT licensed. See file COPYRIGHTS for data
and figure attribution. geobounds copyright details |
| URL: | https://dieghernan.github.io/geobounds/, https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | geobounds citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | geobounds results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | geobounds.html , geobounds.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
geobounds: Download administrative boundaries in R (source) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | geobounds_1.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: geobounds_0.1.2.zip, r-release: geobounds_0.1.2.zip, r-oldrel: geobounds_0.1.2.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | geobounds archive |
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