tigris (version 0.3)

rails: Download a national rails shapefile into R

Description

National dataset for US railroads, including carlines, streetcars, monorails, mass transit, cog rail, incline rail, and trams.

Usage

rails(...)

Arguments

...

arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported. Options include refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE), and year, the year for w

See Also

http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf Other transportation functions: primary_roads; primary_secondary_roads; roads

Examples

library(tigris)
library(sp)

rls <- rails()

plot(rls)