community_areas_sf: Chicago's 77 community areas

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Description

A simple feature of the 77 community area boundaries in Chicago that can only be used with the sf package.

Usage

data("community_areas_sf")

Format

A simple feature (which is either data.frame or tibble) with a geometry list-column with 77 observations on the following 3 variables:

community

the name of each community area

area_numbe

the area number for each community(identical to area_num_1)

geometry

a list that contains the dimensions and the simple feature geometry type

Details

The following is sf installation advice from Matt Herman:

Depending on your operating system and available libraries, sf can be tricky to install the first time. The sf website is a good place to start if you're having trouble. If you're using macOS, this is a good guide to installing the required libraries.

Source

This data frame comes from the City of Chicago Data Portal, Boundaries - Community Areas (current). The file was last updated on December 18, 2018.

References

sf documentation has helpful information on how to work with sf objects.

See Also

• ?pointdexter::community_areas_spdf

Examples

# load necessary packages ----
library(sf)

# load necessary data ----
data("community_areas_sf")

# plot all 77 community areas -----
par(mar = c(0, 0, 1, 0))

plot(community_areas_sf$geometry
     , main = "Chicago's 77 community areas"
     , col = "gray85"
     , border = "dodgerblue4")
     

pointdexter documentation built on May 1, 2019, 10:29 p.m.