R/militaryBases.R

#' US Military Bases
#'
#' A dataset containing published US military bases.
#'
#' @usage data("militaryBases")
#'
#' @format A data frame with 721 rows and 6 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{lat}{latitude of military base}
#'   \item{lon}{longitude of military base}
#'   \item{objectid}{a unique identifier of US military bases}
#'   \item{base}{name of military base or site}
#'   \item{perimeter}{perimeter in miles}
#'   \item{area}{area in square miles}
#' }
#'
#' @details
#'
#' According to the opendatasoft \href{https://bit.ly/3yVXhMn}{website}:
#' "The Military Bases dataset is as of May 21, 2019, and is part of the U.S.
#' Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics's
#' (BTS's) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The dataset depicts
#' the authoritative boundaries of the most commonly known Department of Defense
#' (DoD) sites, installations, ranges, and training areas in the United States
#' and Territories. These sites encompass land which is federally owned or
#' otherwise managed.
#'
#' This dataset was created from source data provided by
#' the four Military Service Component headquarters and was compiled by the
#' Defense Installation Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) Program within
#' the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and
#' Environment, Business Enterprise Integration Directorate. Sites were selected
#' from the 2010 Base Structure Report (BSR), a summary of the DoD Real Property
#' Inventory. This list does not necessarily represent a comprehensive collection
#'  of all Department of Defense facilities, and only those in the fifty United
#'  States . . .  were considered for inclusion.
#'
#'  For inventory purposes, installations are comprised of sites, where a
#'  site is defined as
#'  a specific geographic location of federally owned or managed land and is
#'  assigned to military installation. DoD installations are commonly referred
#'  to as a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any
#'  ship, or other activity under the jurisdiction, custody, control of the DoD."
#'
#'  The accompanying release notes excluded some sites because (1) national
#'  security concerns,  (2) geospatial data was unavailable or (3) the site was
#'  leased. Sites were included if it
#'  (1) is a DoD site located in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Guam; (2) is larger
#'  than 10 acres and (3) is valued greater than $10 million.
#'
#'  U.S. territories were excluded.
#'
#' @importFrom Rdpack reprompt
#' @references
#'   \insertRef{USDOTbases2019}{retirementData}
#' @examples
#' #load
#' data("militaryBases")
"militaryBases"
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