alaska: Alaska multipolygon

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Alaska multipolygon

Description

The object loaded is a sf object containing the state of Alaska from the US Census Bureau with a few variables from American Community Survey (ACS)

Usage

alaska

Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 1 obs. of 7 variables:

• GEOID: character vector of geographic identifiers

• NAME: character vector of state names

• REGION: character vector of region names

• AREA: area in square kilometers of units class

• total_pop_10: numerical vector of total population in 2010

• total_pop_15: numerical vector of total population in 2015

• geometry: sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in projected coordinates using Alaska Albers (EPSG:3467).

Source

https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html

See Also

See the tigris package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tigris

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(alaska)

  plot(alaska["total_pop_15"])
}

spData documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 5:36 p.m.