Bug: shapefiles for the USA not loading properly

[bertozzivill]

I use malariaAtlas in my example script for making custom accessibility surfaces. In the past, I've used the following getShp code to download a shapefile for Colorado state:

USA.shp <- malariaAtlas::getShp(ISO = "USA", admin_level = "admin1")
analysis.shp <- USA.shp[USA.shp@data$name=="Colorado",]

Running this code now returns analysis.shp as a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 0 features, which makes sense because the @data field of USA.shp is no longer populated:

The same is true for other non-malaria-endemic countries like Italy, but countries like Zambia and Vietnam load just fine. Are there now only subnational shapefiles available for endemic countries? Can we bring the non-endemic countries back?

[timcdlucas]

I guess we switched to map 2018 shapefiles witch might be endemic only.

I think we don't want to simply switch back because there's lots of lower admin units only in the new one. So I think we might need to try and return a mish mash.

I'll email Suzanne and Jen and see if they can work out something sensible.

[bertozzivill]

Great, thanks. My current use case is fairly small/specific, but even outside malaria modeling a library with easily-downloadable global shapefiles is extremely useful.

[timcdlucas]

Ok, we (Suzanna) are going to fix this. But it's not trivial so it'll take a little while.

It was caused by switching to the new shapefiles by the way.

[bertozzivill]

Much appreciated, thanks to all!