geobounds: Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'

Provides tools to download individual country boundaries and global composite boundaries from 'geoBoundaries' <https://www.geoboundaries.org/> across multiple administrative ('ADM') levels. Returns boundaries as 'sf' objects for mapping and spatial analysis. Runfola et al. (2020) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866> describe the underlying database.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, countrycode, dplyr, httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), sf, tools, utils
Suggests: ggplot2, jsonlite, knitr, quarto, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble, withr
Published: 2026-07-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.geobounds
Author: Diego Hernangómez ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], William and Mary geoLab ROR ID [cph] (for the geoBoundaries project)
Maintainer: Diego Hernangómez <diego.hernangomezherrero at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Copyright: Package code is MIT licensed. See file COPYRIGHTS for data and figure attribution.
geobounds copyright details
URL: https://dieghernan.github.io/geobounds/, https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: geobounds citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: geobounds results

Documentation:

Reference manual: geobounds.html , geobounds.pdf
Vignettes: geobounds: Download administrative boundaries in R (source)

Downloads:

Package source: geobounds_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: geobounds_1.0.0.zip, r-release: geobounds_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: geobounds_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): geobounds_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources: geobounds archive

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