Get Indian administrative boundaries — get_india_admin • lightson

Returns Indian administrative boundaries as an sf object. Useful as the polygons argument to extract_panel().

Usage

get_india_admin(
  level = c("country", "state", "district"),
  source = c("gadm", "bhuvan")
)

Arguments

level: One of "country", "state", or "district".
source: One of "gadm" (default) or "bhuvan". For level = "state", the default uses a bundled LGD dataset with SoI-compliant boundaries regardless of source. "bhuvan" fetches geometries from the Bhuvan API so that names match bhuvan_stats() output exactly.

Value

An sf object.

Details

State boundaries use a bundled LGD (Local Government Directory) dataset derived from the Survey of India.

For custom boundaries, load your own file with sf::read_sf() and pass it directly to extract_panel() – no wrapper needed.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
states <- get_india_admin("state")
districts <- get_india_admin("district")

# custom boundary:
districts <- sf::read_sf("https://bharatviz.org/India-bhuvan-districts.geojson")
} # }