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tigris (version 0.5)

metro_divisions: Download a metropolitan divisions shapefile into R.

Description

Metropolitan divisions are subdivisions of metropolitan areas with population of at least 2.5 million. Please note: not all metropolitan areas have metropolitan divisions.

Usage

metro_divisions(year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

year
The data year (defaults to 2015).
...
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 which you'd like to download data (defaults to 2015).

See Also

http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf

Other metro area functions: combined_statistical_areas, core_based_statistical_areas, new_england, urban_areas