tigris (version 0.7)

regions: Download a US regions cartographic boundary shapefile into R

Description

Download a US regions cartographic boundary shapefile into R

Usage

regions(resolution = "500k", year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

resolution

The resolution of the cartographic boundary file. Defaults to '500k'; options include '5m' (1:5 million) and '20m' (1:20 million).

year

the data year (defaults to 2016).

...

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).

See Also

Other national cartographic boundary functions: divisions, nation

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(tigris)
library(leaflet)

us_regions <- regions(resolution = '20m')

leaflet(us_regions) %>%
   addTiles() %>%
   addPolygons()
# }