coast: European coastline from -11 to 0 East and
from 43 to 59 North
Description
The data are longitudes (degrees E) and latitudes (degrees N) defining points that can be joined up to get the European coastline in the rectangle (-11E,43N)-(0E,59N). Discontinuous sections of coast are separated by NA's.
Usage
data(coast)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 2 columns.
lon
Longitude in degrees East for points used to define the coast.
lat
Latitude in degrees North for points used to define the coast.
Details
lon, lat together define the co-ordinates of points that can be joined up in order to
plot the coastline. The original data come from the NOAA www site given below,
but have been substantially thinned, to a much lower resultion than the source.
References
Originally from...
http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/
# NOT RUN {data(coast)
# plot the entire coast .....plot(coast$lon,coast$lat,type="l")
# or draw it clipped to whatever the current plot is....lines(coast$lon,coast$lat,col="blue")
# }