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DeducerSpatial (version 0.7)

loadCensusData: load 200 or 2010 census data

Description

Loads SpatialPolygonDataFrames representing the 2000 or 2010 census. If the dataset packages are not present they are installed (via the internet).

Usage

loadCensusData(state,level=c("county","tract","blkgrp","blk","cdp"), year=c("2010","2000"), verbose=TRUE, osmTransform=TRUE, envir = .GlobalEnv)

Arguments

state
the name of the state (lower case)
level
the detail level of the dataset. note that blkgrp and blk yield very large datasets
year
census year
verbose
how verbose to be
osmTransform
should data be loaded in the OpenStreetMaps mercator projection
envir
the environment where the data should be loaded

Examples

Run this code
## Not run: 
# loadCensusData(state = 'california')
# plot(california.county10)
# ## End(Not run)

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