Returns a simple features data frame for EPA Regions
The full resolution file will be named "EPA_Regions.rda". In addition, "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file will be created that that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%. Simplified versions will greatly improve the speed of both searching and plotting.
convertEPARegions()
Name of the datasetName being created.
An EPA region boundary shapefile is converted to a
simple features data frame with additional columns of data. The resulting file
will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with
setSpatialDataDir()
.
The source data is from 2022.