muRL (version 0.1-2)

zips: A .tab file of US ZIP code data for mapping recipients

Description

A .tab file of United States ZIP code data for mapping recipients. Called by zip.plot to match ZIP codes from letters to latitude and longitude coordinates, and then plot latitudes and longitudes on a user-selected map type.

Usage

data(zips)

source

The original file upon which zips.tab is based is available at http://www.census.gov/ tiger/tms/gazetteer/zcta5.txt, which is linked from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html. The US Census Bureau's Geography Division produced these documents. A few additions to the originals have been made. See the muRL CHANGELOG for details.

References

Further information about ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) is available at http://www.census.gov/geo/ZCTA/zcta.html.

Examples

data(zips)

summary(zips$lat)
summary(zips$lon)