USAboundaries

0.5.1

Historical and Contemporary Boundaries of the United States of America

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jacci ZiebertFirst published 2014-11-257 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The boundaries for geographical units in the United States of America contained in this package include state, county, congressional district, and zip code tabulation area. Contemporary boundaries are provided by the U.S. Census Bureau (public domain). Historical boundaries for the years from 1629 to 2000 are provided form the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (licensed CC BY-NC-SA). Additional data is provided in the USAboundariesData package; this package provides an interface to access that data.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("USAboundaries")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

pak::pak("ropensci/USAboundaries")

Development version from ropensci/USAboundaries. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-usaboundaries

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-USAboundaries

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-USAboundaries

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (1)

cli

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

covr dplyr knitr leaflet pak rmarkdown sf testthat tibble USAboundariesData

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 702 (55%)Rd 458 (36%)Vignettes 125 (10%)

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

10 8 exported

Complexity

4.4 avg / 9 max

Call network

10 nodes / 12 edges

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jacci Ziebert

Maintainer

Authors (2)

Jordan Bratt

Author

Lincoln Mullen

Author

United States Census Bureau

Release timeline

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-11-25
Total releases: 7 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
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