R/us_cities_pop.R

In ropensci/historydata: Datasets for Historians

#' United States Historical City Populations, 1790-2010
#'
#' A dataset of cities mentioned in the U.S. Census and other data sources. In
#' general, cities are included once they reach a population of 2,500. Data is
#' recorded every ten years. See
#' \href{https://github.com/cestastanford/historical-us-city-populations/}{the
#' dataset's GitHub page} for details on how the data was gathered.
#'
#' @references Erik Steiner and Jason Heppler, "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/}
"us_cities_pop"