Lightweight Interface to TIGER/Line Shapefiles
Overview
Download geographic shapes from the United States Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html. Functions support downloading and reading in geographic boundary data. All downloads can be set up with a cache to avoid multiple downloads. Data is available back to 2000 for most geographies.
- Improves printing from
curlbehavior to default to no text in non-interactive sessions. (#5) - Skips download tests on CRAN due to recent failures.
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Documentation
- Help pages
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Dependencies
Installing tinytiger adds 12 packages (11 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2022-08-23
- Total releases
- 7 / 4 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 2.10
- Bundled data
- 12 KB / 1 file
- Download size
- 84 KB
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