Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for US Congressional Districts for the 116th US House of Representatives.
convertUSCensusCongress(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)
Name of the dataset being created.
Logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file.
Logical specifying whether to create "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%.
A US congressional district 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()
.
#' The source data is from 2019.
setSpatialDataDir