get_wac_spatial: get_wac_spatial

In patrickballantyne/tidylodes: tidylodes: A package for extracting, processing and 'spatialising' data from the US Census Bureau's LODES database

Description

This function allows users to convert output dataframe(s) of get_wac_data or get_jobsector_wac into simple features, by joining the dataframe onto a census block simple feature for the state of interest, using the TIGRIS package to obtain the census blocks sf.

Usage

get_wac_spatial(df)

Arguments

df	This function requires as input a cleaned WAC dataframe either as a direct output of get_wac_data, or of get_jobsector_wac.

Value

Returns WAC data in a spatial (simple features) format, that can be easily manipulated, mapped or used in spatial operations.

Author(s)

Ballantyne, Patrick

References

LODES data available to download manually from: https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/lodes/LODES7/ For more information on the TIGRIS package visit: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tigris

Examples

## Obtain a WAC dataset
df <- get_wac_data("ak", "2013")

## Convert to simple features
sf <- get_wac_spatial(df)

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