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metro_divisions: Download a metropolitan divisions shapefile into R.

Description

Metropolitan divisions are subdivisions of metropolitan areas with population of at least 2.5 million. Please note: not all metropolitan areas have metropolitan divisions.

Usage

metro_divisions(year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

year

The data year (defaults to 2020).

...

arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported. Options include class, which can be set to "sf" (the default) or "sp" to request sf or sp class objects, and refresh, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE).

See Also

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2020/TGRSHP2020_TechDoc.pdf

Other metro area functions: combined_statistical_areas(), core_based_statistical_areas(), new_england(), urban_areas()