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tigris (version 0.3)

Load Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles into R

Description

Download TIGER/Line shapefiles from the United States Census Bureau and load into R as 'SpatialDataFrame' objects.

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install.packages('tigris')

Monthly Downloads

10,950

Version

0.3

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Kyle Walker

Last Published

May 18th, 2016

Functions in tigris (0.3)

counties

Download a US Counties shapefile into R, and optionally subset by state
school_districts

Download a school district shapefile into R
area_water

Download an area water shapefile into R
core_based_statistical_areas

Download a core-based statistical area shapefile into R
divisions

Download a US Census divisions cartographic boundary shapefile into R
geo_join

Easily merge a data frame to a spatial data frame
blocks

Download a Census block shapefile into R
is_tigris

Returns TRUE if obj has a tigris attribute
landmarks

Download a point or area landmarks shapefile into R
block_groups

Download a Census block groups shapefile into R, and optionally subset by county
alaska_native_regional_corporations

Download an Alaska Native Regional Corporation shapefile into R.
tribal_block_groups

Download a Tribal block groups shapefile into R.
tribal_subdivisions_national

Download an American Indian Tribal Subdivision National shapefile into R.
combined_statistical_areas

Download a combined statistical areas shapefile into R
new_england

Download a New England City and Town Area shapefile into R
voting_districts

Download a voting districts shapefile (2012 TIGER/Line) into R
grep_state

Find states matching a term in a state object
military

Download the Military Installation National Shapefile into R
zctas

Download a Zip Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) shapefile into R
coastline

Download a shapefile of the US coastline into R
fips_codes

Dataset with FIPS codes for US states and counties
linear_water

Download an linear water shapefile into R
rbind_tigris

Row-bind tigris Spatial objects
tigris_type

Get the type of tigris object obj is
list_counties

Return a data frame of county names & FIPS codes for a given state
filter_state

Filter a states Spatial object for only those states matching the contents of the state vector.
tigris-exports

tigris exported operators
urban_areas

Download an urban areas shapefile into R
tribal_census_tracts

Download a Tribal Census tract shapefile into R.
pumas

Download a Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) shapefile into R
tigris

Download and use U.S. Census TIGER shapefiles in R
filter_place

Filter a places Spatial object for only those places matching the contents of the place vector.
primary_secondary_roads

Download a primary & secondary roads shapefile into R
rails

Download a national rails shapefile into R
places

Download a Census-designated places shapefile into R
native_areas

Download an American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian Areas shapefile into R.
tracts

Download a Census tracts shapefile into R, and optionally subset by county
metro_divisions

Download a metropolitan divisions shapefile into R.
state_legislative_districts

Download a state legislative districts shapefile into R - upper or lower
list_places

Return a list of all the places in a places object
states

Download shapefile for all states into R
regions

Download a US regions cartographic boundary shapefile into R
lookup_code

Look up state and county codes
roads

Download a roads shapefile into R
grep_place

Find places matching a term in a places object
primary_roads

Download a national primary roads shapefile into R
nation

Download a US national boundary shapefile into R
congressional_districts

Download a congressional districts shapefile for the 114th Congress into R
list_states

Return a list of all the states in a state object