tigris (version 1.6)

primary_roads: Download a national primary roads shapefile into R

Description

From the Census Bureau: "Primary roads are generally divided, limited-access highways within the Federal interstate highway system or under state management. These highways are distinguished by the presence of interchanges and are accessible by ramps and may include some toll highways."

Usage

primary_roads(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 transportation functions: address_ranges(), primary_secondary_roads(), rails(), roads()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(tigris)

rds <- primary_roads()

plot(rds$geometry)

# }