getStateTract: Retrieves shapefile for state census tracts

In kevjohnson/mymaps: My Maps Package

Description

This function returns a dataframe with map data for every census tract in a particular state.

Usage

getStateTract(state, directory = "shapefiles", region = c("GEO_ID", "STATE",
  "COUNTY", "TRACT", "NAME", "LSAD", "CENSUSAREA"))

Arguments

state	string with the abbreviation of the state (e.g. "GA")
directory	directory where shapefiles are located, or directory for shapefiles to be downloaded into, defaults to "shapefiles"
region	region to use with the fortify() function, defaults to "GEO_ID". Choices are "GEO_ID", "STATE", "COUNTY", "TRACT", "NAME", "LSAD", "CENSUSAREA".

Examples

map <- getStateTract("GA")
makemap(data=d, map = map, var="obese", id="geoid", per=TRUE)

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