mwmapdata: Spatial Boundary Data for Malawi Administrative Levels

Provides official spatial boundary datasets for Malawi at multiple administrative levels: country (level 0), regions (level 1), districts (level 2), and traditional authorities (level 3). Also includes Lake Malawi boundary data. Boundary data are the Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) sourced from the National Statistics Office of Malawi and distributed via the OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), version 02 <https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mwi>. Intended for use with the 'mwmap' package or any spatial analysis workflow requiring Malawi administrative boundaries.

Version: 1.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: sf
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-05-06
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.mwmapdata (may not be active yet)
Author: Chifundo Bita [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Chifundo Bita <bitac.analytics at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata, https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmap
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: mwmapdata results

Documentation:

Reference manual: mwmapdata.html , mwmapdata.pdf

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Package source: mwmapdata_1.0.0.tar.gz
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