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Download the LandScan population raster of Mexico

Source: R/get_landscan.R
get_landscan.Rd

Downloads (only the first time) the LandScan population raster of Mexico published as an asset of a GitHub release of popmex, and returns it as a `SpatRaster`. The file is kept in a local cache, so later calls read it from disk without downloading it again.

Usage

get_landscan(
  url =
    "https://github.com/fdzul/popmex/releases/download/landscan-data/pop_LandScan.tif",
  refresh = FALSE
)

Source

LandScan Global, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), <https://landscan.ornl.gov>.

Arguments

url

address of the file. By default, the asset `pop_LandScan.tif` of the release `landscan-data` of the popmex repository.

refresh

if `TRUE`, download the file again even if it is cached.

Value

a `terra::SpatRaster` with the estimated population per cell.

Author

Felipe Antonio Dzul Manzanilla felipe.dzul.m@gmail.com.

Examples

# \donttest{
if (requireNamespace("terra", quietly = TRUE)) {
  r <- get_landscan()
  r
}
#> class       : SpatRaster
#> size        : 2182, 3799, 26  (nrow, ncol, nlyr)
#> resolution  : 0.008333333, 0.008333333  (x, y)
#> extent      : -118.3667, -86.70833, 14.53333, 32.71667  (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
#> coord. ref. : lon/lat WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
#> source      : pop_LandScan.tif
#> names       : pop_2000, pop_2001, pop_2002, pop_2003, pop_2004, pop_2005, ...
#> min values  :        0,        0,        0,        0,        0,        0, ...
#> max values  :    73503,    60288,    71586,    58516,    59216,    60214, ...
# }