Function to download DIVA-GIS gazetteer data for a country

This function downloads the DIVA-GIS gazetteer data for a country. If the file is already on disk it will not perform the download.

getGAZ(cod, destfolder = "GAZ", unzip = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

cod	Three letter ISO code for the country.
destfolder	The destination folder
unzip	Unzip the downloaded files? Defaults to TRUE
...	Options for download.file()

Details

https://gadm.org/data.html

Author

Andrea Sánchez-Tapia & Sara Mortara

Examples

if (FALSE) {
getGAZ(cod = "COL", unzip = TRUE)
countries <- c("COL", "BRA", "ECU", "PER", "VEN", "BOL")
lapply(countries, getGAZ)
}