I'm trying to run the command ne_countries(scale = 10) in R 3.6.1. I'm encountering an error when trying to install rnaturalearthhires (see below). A Google search doesn't bring up information about what causes this error. Can you please advise?

> ne_countries(scale = 10)
The rnaturalearthhires package needs to be installed.
Install the rnaturalearthhires package? 

1: Yes
2: No

Selection: 1
Installing the rnaturalearthhires package.
Installing package into ‘/home/mgastner/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in value[[3L]](cond) : 
  Failed to install the rnaturalearthhires package.
  Please try installing the package for yourself using the following command: 
     install.packages("rnaturalearthhires", repos = "http://packages.ropensci.org", type = "source")
> install.packages("rnaturalearthhires", repos = "http://packages.ropensci.org", type = "source")
Installing package into ‘/home/mgastner/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in install.packages : error reading from connection

I think that could help with the CRAN checks.

Hi,

I was trying to install the package using the following code:

install.packages("rnaturalearthhires", repos = "http://packages.ropensci.org", type = "source")

and I got an error:

Error in install.packages : error reading from connection

After that, I tried changing the repo URL to the ropensci r-universe and it worked perfectly.

install.packages("rnaturalearthhires", repos = "https://ropensci.r-universe.dev", type = "source")

I hope this helps others :)

rnaturalearth::ne_states("India")
#> The `returnclass` argument of `ne_download()` sp as of rnaturalearth 1.0.0.
#> ℹ Please use `sf` objects with {rnaturalearth}, support for Spatial objects (sp)
#> will be removed in a future release of the package.

I did not specify returnclass. Need to use returnclass = "sf" to silence the warning.

Should rnaturalearthhires return sf objects by default?

I am brand new to rnaturalearth. I finally got the rnaturalearthhires package installed: I think it is the http in the url vs the https url where I can go and find a zip file of the data:

No data: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/ne_110m_lakes.zip

Data available: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/ne_110m_lakes.zip

I used:

lakes110 <- ne_download(scale = 110, type = 'lakes', category = 'physical')
Result:
trying URL 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/ne_110m_lakes.zip'
Error in utils::download.file(file.path(address), zip_file <- tempfile()) :
cannot open URL 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/ne_110m_lakes.zip'
In addition: Warning message:
In utils::download.file(file.path(address), zip_file <- tempfile()) :
cannot open URL 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/ne_110m_lakes.zip': HTTP status was '500 Internal Server Error'

I hope I have asked this in the correct place. Thanks for your time.

Hello! Thank you for this package, I have found it super useful.

Is this package able to be installed on R v4.0.2, and if not yet, could you share an expected timeline on when it might be? I see its counterpart rnaturalearth package already installs just fine.

• My RStudio: Version 1.3.1056
• My OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (64-bit)

I had this package installed and working fine on my R v3.6, but after I updated my R today, this package is not installing: when I try install.packages("rnaturalearthhires") in my RStudio console, I get the following -

Installing package into ‘MY FOLDER FOR R v4.0’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘rnaturalearthhires’ is not available (for R version 4.0.2)

Thank you!

Hi there

In an attempt to install via:
install_github("ropensci/rnaturalearthhires")
I received a strange generic error:

Downloading GitHub repo ropensci/rnaturalearthhires@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet,  : 
  download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/rnaturalearthhires/tarball/HEAD' failed

Not sure what's going on there. Any help would be appreciated

Hi there,

I'm running rnaturalearth version 0.1.0 on R 4.1.0. When I try to use ne_download() to download the rivers dataset, the function tries URL: "http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/physical/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.zip" It seems like an extra URL got in there, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Is this a bug on my end or your end?

I installed rnaturalearth from CRAN, but had to install rnaturalearthhires from GitHub.

Thanks,

Alex

code:
rivers <- ne_download(scale = 50, type = 'rivers_lake_centerlines', category = 'physical', returnclass = "sf") trying URL 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/physical/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.zip' Error in utils::download.file(file.path(address), zip_file <- tempfile()) : cannot open URL 'http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/physical/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.zip'

@andysouth Are you in need of a new package maintainer here? I think some of the data could use updates per ropensci/rnaturalearth#59.