tigris (version 1.6)

nation: Download a US national boundary shapefile into R

Description

Download a US national boundary shapefile into R

Usage

nation(resolution = "5m", year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

resolution

The resolution of the cartographic boundary file. Defaults to '5m'; options include '5m' (1:5 million) and '20m' (1:20 million).

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

Other national cartographic boundary functions: divisions(), regions()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(tigris)
library(leaflet)

boundary <- nation(resolution = '20m')

leaflet(boundary) %>%
   addTiles() %>%
   addPolygons()
# }