A fortified data set that includes U.S. states and is suitable for making maps with ggplot2.
The county FIPS codes and boundary lines from the most recent TIGER release from the U.S. Census Bureau.
long: State longitude
lat: State latitude
order: Polygon order
hole: hole
piece: Polygon piece
id: FIPS Code
group: group
data(state_map_data)A data frame with 13,660 rows and 7 variables
Dataset with the lat. / long. of county FIPS codes used for mapping.
Built-in dataset for use with the bls_map_state() function.
To access the data directly, issue the command datastate_map_data).