Load Dominican Republic Provinces Simple Features (sf)

This function loads the Dominican Republic provinces simple features (sf) and adds metadata for regions if required. It also optionally converts the result to an sf object.

Usage

dr_provinces(.sf = TRUE, .reg = FALSE, .uniques = TRUE)

Format

A simple features collection with 32 features and 6 fields:

PROV_ID: Province number (2 digits) based on the División Territorial 2021 order
PROV_CODE: Province code, a custom 2 or 3-letter abbreviation created for each province
PROV_NAME: Full name of the province as defined in the División Territorial 2021
REG_ID: Region number
REG_NAME: Name of the region
REG_CODE: Code of the region
geometry: Polygon geometry representing each province

Source

https://geoportal.iderd.gob.do/layers/geonode_data:geonode:RD_PROV

https://www.one.gob.do/publicaciones/2021/division-territorial-2021/

Arguments

.sf: Logical; if TRUE, converts the result to an sf object. Defaults to TRUE.
.reg: Logical; if FALSE, removes columns related to regions. Defaults to FALSE.
.uniques: Logical; if TRUE, removes some duplicated IDs inserted to consider territories names changes over time. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A data frame or sf object (if .sf is TRUE) with the loaded and processed data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Load and process the data as sf object
result <- dr_provinces(TRUE, TRUE)
print(result)
} # }