gcensus-package: Retrieve and combine us boundary, population and income data

In gcensus: Census populations and polygons

Description

Retrieve and combine us boundary, population and income data

Usage

gcensus(country = "USA", year = 2010, level = 1, subset = NULL,
  database = c(dbname = "gcensus", user = "gcensus", host = "localhost", port
  = 5433), income = TRUE, crs = "EPSG:4326", simplifyTolerance = 0)

Arguments

country	string specifying a country
year	census year
level	see below
subset	passed as where to postgreql
database	details of database to retrieve data from
income	logical, retrieve income data
crs	coordinate reference system for the output
simplifyTolerance	if non-zero, simplify polygons with this tolerance

Details

level abbreviation name 0 USA United States of America 1 STATE State 1.1 PUMA Public Use Microdata Areas 1.2 ZCTA Zip Code Tabulation Areas 2 COUNTY County 2.1 COSUB County Subdivision 3 TRACT Tract 4 BLKGRP Block Group

Canadian Census:

level abbreviation name 0 USA United States of America 1 STATE State 1.1 PUMA Public Use Microdata Areas 1.2 ZCTA Zip Code Tabulation Areas 2 COUNTY County 2.1 COSUB County Subdivision 3 TRACT Tract 4 BLKGRP Block Group

Examples

## Not run: 
usa = gcensus(country = "USA", year = 2010, level = 1, subset = NULL,
  database = c(dbname = "gcensus", user = "gcensus", 
  host = "localhost", port = 5433), 
  income = TRUE, crs = "EPSG:4326", simplifyTolerance = 0)

## End(Not run)

gcensus documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:49 p.m.