Returns a simple features data frame for US Congressional Districts for the 116th US House of Representatives.
The full resolution file will be named "USCensus116thCongress.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.
convertUSCensusCongress()
Name of the datasetName being created.
A US congressional district 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()
.
#' The source data is from 2021.
setSpatialDataDir