loadCensusData: load 200 or 2010 census data

In DeducerSpatial: Deducer for spatial data analysis

Description

Loads SpatialPolygonDataFrames representing the 2000 or 2010 census. If the dataset packages are not present they are installed (via the internet).

Usage

loadCensusData(state,level=c("county","tract","blkgrp","blk","cdp"),
		year=c("2010","2000"), verbose=TRUE, osmTransform=TRUE, envir = .GlobalEnv)

Arguments

state	the name of the state (lower case)
level	the detail level of the dataset. note that blkgrp and blk yield very large datasets
year	census year
verbose	how verbose to be
osmTransform	should data be loaded in the OpenStreetMaps mercator projection
envir	the environment where the data should be loaded

Examples

## Not run: 
loadCensusData(state = 'california')
plot(california.county10)

## End(Not run)

DeducerSpatial documentation built on May 2, 2019, 11:27 a.m.