compactness_api: This function queries the compactness API rather than...

In aaronrkaufman/compactness: Calculate Legislative District Compactness

This function queries the compactness API rather than calculating compactness locally.

Description

This function queries the compactness API rather than calculating compactness locally.

Usage

compactness_api(dir, namecol)

Arguments

dir	The name of a directory holding the shp, prj, shx, and dbf files.
namecol	The ID of the column with the district name in it

Value

A list of three: the metadata in n x p where n is the number of districts in the shapefile and p is the number of covariates; a list of lists of n where each sublist is a lat-long matrix, and a sublist of length >1 indicates a noncontiguous district; and the name column

Examples

compactness_api(dir = "shapefiles", namecol = "GEOID")

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