tigris (version 1.6)

rails: Download a national rails shapefile into R

Description

National dataset for US railroads, including carlines, streetcars, monorails, mass transit, cog rail, incline rail, and trams.

Usage

rails(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_roads(), primary_secondary_roads(), roads()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(tigris)

rls <- rails()

plot(rls$geometry)

# }