tinytiger: Lightweight Interface to TIGER/Line Shapefiles

Download geographic shapes from the United States Census Bureau TIGER/Line Shapefiles <https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html>. Functions support downloading and reading in geographic boundary data. All downloads can be set up with a cache to avoid multiple downloads. Data is available back to 2000 for most geographies.

Package details

AuthorChristopher T. Kenny [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9386-6860>), Cory McCartan [aut]
MaintainerChristopher T. Kenny <ctkenny@proton.me>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.0.11
URL https://github.com/alarm-redist/tinytiger https://alarm-redist.org/tinytiger/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("tinytiger")

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tinytiger documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:11 p.m.