counties_sf: Retrieve a U.S. county composite map, optionally with a...

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

View source: R/counties_sf.r

Description

The proj parameter is intende to simplify usage for those using base plotting. If anything but longlat is specified the composite map will be pre-projected to those

Usage

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counties_sf(proj = c("longlat", "laea", "lcc", "eqdc", "aeqd"))

Arguments

proj

if anything but longlat is specified, the shapefile will be pre-projected before being returned

Details

This is what's in the object looks like:

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Observations: 3,143
Variables: 9
$ fips        <fctr> 01001, 01009, 01017, 01021, 01033, 01045, 01051, 01065, 01079, 0...
$ state_fips  <fctr> 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 01, 05, 05, 06, ...
$ county_fips <fctr> 001, 009, 017, 021, 033, 045, 051, 065, 079, 083, 099, 107, 121,...
$ name        <fctr> Autauga, Blount, Chambers, Chilton, Colbert, Dale, Elmore, Hale,...
$ lsad        <fctr> County, County, County, County, County, County, County, County, ...
$ census_area <dbl> 594.436, 644.776, 596.531, 692.854, 592.619, 561.150, 618.485, 64...
$ state       <fctr> Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, A...
$ iso_3166_2  <fctr> AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AL, AR, AR, CA, ...
$ geometry    <simple_feature> MULTIPOLYGON(((-86.496774 3..., MULTIPOLYGON(((-86.577...#' 

A reference GeoJSON file isprovided in the following location (i.e. you can use it in any mapping program):

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system.file("extdata/composite_us_counties.geojson.gz", package="albersusa")

Examples

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library(sf)

plot(counties_sf()) # these take a while to render
plot(counties_sf("laea"))

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