cdmap: congressional districts

In heike/cbapi: Accessing data through the API of the Census Bureau

Description

Map of the Congressional districts as determined by the 113th congress, downloaded from http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefilesrd13/layers.cgi and modeified for use as map object in ggplot2. cdmap is a data frame consisting of the variables

• ID: integer ID for each polygon

• Long: geographic longitude

• Lat: geographic latitude

• subregion: integer id

• order: order in which to plot points in polygon

• group: group within polygon

• GEOID: equivalent to group but first two digits are state fips code.

Details

Map of congressional districts based on the 113th congress

Examples

## Not run: 
## read from ACS 2012 profile:
read.census(sprintf("http://api.census.gov/data/2012/acs1/profile?get=DP02_0001PE&for=state:*&key=%s", getkey()))

## End(Not run)

heike/cbapi documentation built on May 17, 2019, 3:23 p.m.