pl_tidy_shp

Downloads block geography and merges with the cleaned PL 94-171 file.

Tools to process legacy format summary redistricting data files
produced by the United States Census Bureau pursuant to P.L. 94-171. These
files are generally available earlier but are difficult to work with as-is.

Cory McCartan

PL94171

Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files

Christopher T. Kenny

pl_tidy_shp function

<dl><dt>abbr</dt>
<dd>The state to make the shapefile for</dd>
<dt>path</dt>
<dd>The path to the PL files, as in <code>pl_read()</code></dd>
<dt>year</dt>
<dd>The year to download the block geography for. Should match the
year of the PL files.</dd>
<dt>type</dt>
<dd>If <code>"blocks"</code>, make a Census block shapefile; if <code>"vtds"</code> make a
VTD shapefile.</dd>
<dt>...</dt>
<dd>passed on to <code><a href="https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/filter.html">dplyr::filter()</a></code>; use to subset to a certain county,
for example.</dd></dl>

Arguments

All-in-one Shapefile Function — pl_tidy_shp

<dl>

<dt>abbr</dt>
<dd>The state to make the shapefile for</dd>


<dt>path</dt>
<dd>The path to the PL files, as in <code>pl_read()</code></dd>


<dt>year</dt>
<dd>The year to download the block geography for. Should match the
year of the PL files.</dd>


<dt>type</dt>
<dd>If <code>"blocks"</code>, make a Census block shapefile; if <code>"vtds"</code> make a
VTD shapefile.</dd>


<dt>...</dt>
<dd>passed on to <code><a href='https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/filter.html'>dplyr::filter()</a></code>; use to subset to a certain county,
for example.</dd>

</dl>

pl_tidy_shp: All-in-one Shapefile Function

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