Coerces a sequence of longitudes and latitudes into a coastline dataset.
This may be used when read.coastline() cannot read a file, or
when the data have been manipulated.
Arguments
- longitude
the longitude in decimal degrees, positive east of Greenwich, or a data frame with columns named
latitudeandlongitude, in which case these values are extracted from the data frame and the second argument is ignored.- latitude
the latitude in decimal degrees, positive north of the Equator.
- fillable
boolean indicating whether the coastline can be drawn as a filled polygon.
Value
a coastline object.
See also
Other things related to coastline data:
[[,coastline-method,
[[<-,coastline-method,
coastline-class,
coastlineBest(),
coastlineCut(),
coastlineWorld,
download.coastline(),
plot,coastline-method,
read.coastline.openstreetmap(),
read.coastline.shapefile(),
subset,coastline-method,
summary,coastline-method