tigris (version 1.6.1)

states: Download shapefile for all states into R

Description

States and Equivalent Entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the 50 states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation.

Usage

states(cb = FALSE, resolution = "500k", year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

cb

If cb is set to TRUE, download a generalized (1:500k) states file. Defaults to FALSE (the most detailed TIGER/Line file)

resolution

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

year

the data year; defaults to 2020

...

arguments to be passed to internal function load_tiger, which is not exported. See Additional Arguments.

Additional Arguments

Additional arguments that can be passed in ... are:

• class Desired class of return object: "sf" (the default) or "sp".

• progress_bar If set to FALSE, do not display download progress bar (helpful for R Markdown documents). Defaults to TRUE.

• keep_zipped_shapefile If set to TRUE, do not delete zipped shapefile (stored in temporary directory or TIGRIS_CACHE_DIR depending on the configuration of global option "tigris_use_cache"). Defaults to FALSE.

• refresh Whether to re-download cached shapefiles (TRUE or FALSE) . The default is either FALSE or the value of global option "tigris_refresh" if it is set. Specifying this argument will override the behavior set in "tigris_refresh" global option.

See Also

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch4GARM.pdf

Other general area functions: block_groups(), blocks(), counties(), county_subdivisions(), places(), pumas(), school_districts(), tracts(), zctas()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(tigris)
library(leaflet)

states <- states(cb = TRUE)

leaflet(states) %>%
  addProviderTiles("CartoDB.Positron") %>%
  addPolygons(fillColor = "white",
              color = "black",
              weight = 0.5) %>%
  setView(-98.5795, 39.8282, zoom=3)
}