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MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.8.6)

convertUSCensusCBSA: Convert US Core Based Statistical Areas shapefile

Description

Returns a simple features data frame for US CBSAs

The full resolution file will be named "USCensusCBSA.rda". In addition, "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file will be created that that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%. Simplified versions will greatly improve the speed of both searching and plotting.

Usage

convertUSCensusCBSA()

Arguments

Value

Name of the datasetName being created.

Details

A US Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSA) shapefile is downloaded and converted to a simple features data frame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir().

References

https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2021/CBSA/

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getUSCounty