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canada: Provincial and territorial boundaries of Canada, 2001

Description

An list-like object with components x and y specifying the provincial and territorial boundaries of Canada during the 2001 census. The coordinates are in longitude/latitude coordinates. The data was derived from the shapefiles provided by Statistics Canada. The object also has a component range specifying the range of the data in the order c(min(x), max(x), min(y), max(y)). Lastly, the object has a final component, names, which provides the name of the region each polygon is associated with. The object has class map for compatibility with the maps package.

Usage

data(canada)

Arguments

Format

Contains:

x

Longitude coordinates for Canadian boundaries

y

Latitude coordinates for Canadian boundaries

range

Range of x- and y-values

names

Region name for each polygon