Breaking changes
This is a breaking changes release that ends support to sp
object in favour of more modern interfaces (sf
and terra
). Although that sp
is still available on CRAN, it is no longer being actively developed (https://geocompx.org/post/2023/rgdal-retirement/). This is the main reason that motivated the choice to transition toward sf
(the default) and terra
.
Users can choose either get an sf
or SpatVector
using the returnclass
argument:
ne_countries(returnclass = "sf")
ne_countries(returnclass = "sv")
All spatial objects in the package (countries10
, map_units10
, sovereignty10
, states10
, coastline10
) are now objects of class sf
.
If changing the return type to sf
creates too many problems to your existing code, you can still convert it back to sp
: