Monday, March 2, 2020

geobr v1.2 is on CRAN




geobr is an R package to download official spatial data sets of Brazil. It includes more than 20 data sets available at various geographic scales and for various years with harmonized attributes, projection and topology





News in this release: 
  • the package is much faster 
  • new data on metropolitan areas : read_metro_areas
  • new data on municipal seats (sede dos municipios) : read_municipal_seat
  • new fun to look up code of municipalities : lookup_muni
  • new fun to list all data sets available in geobr : list_geobr