tigris (version 0.5)

rails: Download a national rails shapefile into R

Description

National dataset for US railroads, including carlines, streetcars, monorails, mass transit, cog rail, incline rail, and trams.

Usage

rails(year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

year

the data year (defaults to 2015).

...

arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported. Options include refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE).

See Also

http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf

Other transportation functions: primary_roads, primary_secondary_roads, roads

Examples

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# library(tigris)
# library(sp)
# 
# rls <- rails()
# 
# plot(rls)
# 
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