pl_get_prototype: Download TIGER Prototype shapefiles

In PL94171: Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files

Download TIGER Prototype shapefiles

Description

These prototype shapefiles correspond to the Rhode Island end-to-end Census test and the accompanying prototype P.L. 94-171 data. This function is unlikely to be useful for working with any actual decennial Census data. The corresponding tinytiger or tigris functions should be used instead.

Usage

pl_get_prototype(
  geog,
  year = 2020,
  full_state = TRUE,
  cache_to = NULL,
  clean_names = TRUE,
  refresh = FALSE
)

Arguments

geog	Geography to download data for. See details for full list.
year	year, either 2010 or 2020
full_state	whether to return the full state (TRUE) or the single county subset (FALSE)
cache_to	the file name, if any, to cache the results to (as an RDS). If a file exists and refresh=FALSE, will read from this file.
clean_names	whether to clean and rename columns
refresh	if TRUE, force a re-download of the data.

Details

Current acceptable arguments to geog include:

• block: block

• block_group: block group

• tract: tract

• county: county

• state: state

• sld_low: state legislative district lower house

• sld_up: state legislative district upper house

• congressional_district: federal congressional district

• place: Census place

• voting_district: voting tabulation district

Value

An sf object containing the blocks.

Examples

shp <- pl_get_prototype("block")

PL94171 documentation built on April 3, 2025, 7:50 p.m.