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tigris (version 0.9.2)

tigris: Download and use U.S. Census TIGER shapefiles in R

Description

Use option tigris_use_cache to tell tigris to cache Census shapefile downloads. This is TRUE by default. e.g. options(tigris_use_cache=TRUE)

Arguments

Details

Use option tigris_refresh to force a refresh of cached tigris Shapefiles. e.g. options(tigris_refresh=TRUE)

Use option tigris_year to change the year for which you'd like to download data. e.g. options(tigris_year = 2013). The default year for the package is 2015, the most recent year for which data are available.