Create a simple features dataframe for US states
The full resolution file will be named "USCensusStates". 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.
convertUSCensusStates()Name of the datasetName being created.
A US state borders shapefile is downloaded and converted to a simple features dataframe 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.