R/census-cities.R

#' Historical population data for U.S. cities
#'
#' This \code{sf} object contains historical population data for U.S. cities
#' with latitudes and longitudes of the cities. The data is drawn from the U.S.
#' Census. The data was compiled by Erik Steiner and Jason Heppler at the Center
#' for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University. See their
#' \href{https://github.com/cestastanford/historical-us-city-populations}{description
#' of the data} for a fuller accounting of how the data was gathered.
#'
#' @references U.S. Census Bureau and Erik Steiner, "United States Historical
#'   City Populations, 1790-2010," Spatial History Project, Center for Spatial
#'   and Textual Analysis, Stanford University,
#'   \url{https://github.com/cestastanford/historical-us-city-populations/}.
"census_cities"
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