Argentum: Access Argentine WFS and WMS Geospatial Web Services

Discovers and reads geospatial layers published by Argentine public organizations through the Open Geospatial Consortium standards Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Map Service (WMS). Provides a cached catalogue of endpoints, capability parsing with version negotiation, paginated vector downloads returned as 'sf' objects, and raster map retrieval returned as 'terra' objects. For the underlying standards see <https://www.ogc.org/standards/wfs/> and <https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms/>.

Version: 2.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: cli, httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), sf, terra, utils, xml2
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-08-20
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Argentum
Author: Thomas Artopoulos [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Thomas Artopoulos <thomas.artopoulos at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/thomasartopoulos/argentum/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/thomasartopoulos/argentum, https://thomasartopoulos.github.io/argentum/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: Argentum results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Argentum.html , Argentum.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started (source, R code)
Migrating to 2.0 (source, R code)
Working with WMS rasters (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: Argentum_2.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Argentum_1.0.0.zip, r-release: Argentum_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: Argentum_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): Argentum_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): Argentum_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Argentum_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Argentum_1.0.0.tgz
Old sources: Argentum archive

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