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Get GISCO NUTS sf polygons, points and lines

Source: R/gisco_get_nuts.R
gisco_get_nuts.Rd

Returns NUTS regions polygons, lines and points at a specified scale, as provided by GISCO.

NUTS are provided at three different levels:

  • "0": Country level

  • "1": Groups of states/regions

  • "2": States/regions

  • "3": Counties/provinces/districts

Note that NUTS-level definition may vary across countries. See also https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata//statistical-units/territorial-units-statistics.

Usage

gisco_get_nuts(
  year = "2016",
  epsg = "4326",
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  resolution = "20",
  spatialtype = "RG",
  country = NULL,
  nuts_id = NULL,
  nuts_level = "all"
)

Source

https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/

Arguments

year

Release year of the file. One of "2003", "2006", "2010", "2013", "2016", "2021" or "2024".

epsg

projection of the map: 4-digit EPSG code. One of:

  • "4258": ETRS89

  • "4326": WGS84

  • "3035": ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA

  • "3857": Pseudo-Mercator

cache

A logical whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See About caching.

update_cache

A logical whether to update cache. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a fresh download of the source .geojson file.

cache_dir

A path to a cache directory. See About caching.

verbose

Logical, displays information. Useful for debugging, default is FALSE.

resolution

Resolution of the geospatial data. One of

  • "60": 1:60million

  • "20": 1:20million

  • "10": 1:10million

  • "03": 1:3million

  • "01": 1:1million

spatialtype

Type of geometry to be returned:

  • "BN": Boundaries - LINESTRING object.

  • "LB": Labels - POINT object.

  • "RG": Regions - MULTIPOLYGON/POLYGON object.

Note that parameters country, nuts_level and nuts_id would be only applied when spatialtype is "BN" or "RG".

country

Optional. A character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. Mixed types (as c("Italy","ES","FRA")) would not work. See also countrycode::countrycode().

nuts_id

Optional. A character vector of NUTS IDs.

nuts_level

NUTS level. One of "0", "1", "2" or "3". See Description.

Value

A sf object specified by spatialtype. The resulting sf object would present an additional column geo (equal to NUTS_ID) for improving compatibility with eurostat package. See eurostat::get_eurostat_geospatial()).

See also gisco_nuts to understand the columns and values provided.

About caching

You can set your cache_dir with gisco_set_cache_dir().

Sometimes cached files may be corrupt. On that case, try re-downloading the data setting update_cache = TRUE.

If you experience any problem on download, try to download the corresponding .geojson file by any other method and save it on your cache_dir. Use the option verbose = TRUE for debugging the API query.

For a complete list of files available check gisco_db.

See also

gisco_nuts, gisco_get_countries(), eurostat::get_eurostat_geospatial()

Other political: gisco_bulk_download(), gisco_get_coastallines(), gisco_get_countries(), gisco_get_lau(), gisco_get_postalcodes(), gisco_get_units(), gisco_get_urban_audit()

Examples

nuts2 <- gisco_get_nuts(nuts_level = 2)

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(nuts2) +
  geom_sf() +
  # ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA
  coord_sf(
    crs = 3035, xlim = c(2377294, 7453440),
    ylim = c(1313597, 5628510)
  ) +
  labs(title = "NUTS-2 levels")

# \donttest{
# NUTS-3 for Germany
germany_nuts3 <- gisco_get_nuts(nuts_level = 3, country = "Germany")

ggplot(germany_nuts3) +
  geom_sf() +
  labs(
    title = "NUTS-3 levels",
    subtitle = "Germany",
    caption = gisco_attributions()
  )



# Select specific regions
select_nuts <- gisco_get_nuts(nuts_id = c("ES2", "FRJ", "FRL", "ITC"))

ggplot(select_nuts) +
  geom_sf(aes(fill = CNTR_CODE)) +
  scale_fill_viridis_d()

# }