create_tract_table: Create Tract Level Data

In christopherkenny/geomander: Geographic Tools for Studying Gerrymandering

Create Tract Level Data

Description

Create Tract Level Data

Usage

create_tract_table(
  state,
  county,
  geometry = TRUE,
  year = 2019,
  mem = FALSE,
  epsg = 3857
)

Arguments

state	Required. Two letter state postal code.
county	Optional. Name of county. If not provided, returns tracts for the entire state.
geometry	Defaults to TRUE. Whether to return the geography or not.
year	year, must be >= 2009 and <= 2019.
mem	Default is FALSE. Set TRUE to use memoized backend.
epsg	numeric EPSG code to planarize to. Default is 3857.

Value

dataframe with data for each tract in the selected region. Data includes 3 sets of columns for each race or ethnicity category: population (pop), voting age population (vap), and citizen voting age population (cvap)

Examples

## Not run: 
# Relies on Census Bureau API
tract <- create_tract_table('NY', 'Rockland', year = 2018)

## End(Not run)

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