community_areas_spdf: A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of Chicago's 77 community areas

Description Usage Format Source See Also Examples

Description

77 community area boundaries in Chicago that only be used with the sp package.

Usage

1
data("community_areas_spdf")

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 77 observations on the following 2 variables:

community

the name of each community area

area_numbe

the area number for each community(identical to area_num_1)

Source

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

See Also

Examples

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
# load necessary packages ----
library(sp)

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

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

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

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