gisfao

gisfao package provides you with the up-to-data shapefiles that are compatible with FAOSTAT country codes (FAO_CODE). Also, shapefiles data slots have a dummy variable for each FAO regions which you can subset the shapefile with. Fao regions are:

• RAF (Africa)
• LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean)
• RAP (Asia and the Pacific)
• REU (Europe and Central Asia)
• RNE (Near East and North Africa)

Shapefiles included

1. World Country Polygons fao_world - class SpatialPolygonDataFRame
2. World Country Polygons Centroids fao_world_centroids - class SpatialPointDataFRame

See vignettes at

• https://github.com/UNFAOstatistics/gisfao/blob/master/vignettes/gisfao_vignette.md
• https://github.com/UNFAOstatistics/gisfao/blob/master/vignettes/gisfao_faostat_vignette.md

for more detailed examples.

Install packages

devtools::install_github('UNFAOstatistics/gisfao')

Load and plot the polygon data

library(gisfao)
library(sp)
data(fao_world)
plot(fao_world)

data(fao_world_centroids)
plot(fao_world_centroids)

data(graticule)
plot(graticule)