MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.6.4)

convertPHDs: Convert Public Health Districts Shapefile

Description

Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for Public Health Districts for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California.

Usage

convertPHDs(nameOnly = FALSE)

Arguments

nameOnly

logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

Details

A Public Health Districts shapefile is downloaded and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir().

References

http://mazamascience.com/Shapefiles/PHDs.tgz

See Also

setSpatialDataDir