National dataset for US railroads, including carlines, streetcars, monorails, mass transit, cog rail, incline rail, and trams.
rails(year = NULL, ...)
the data year; defaults to 2022
arguments to be passed to internal function load_tiger
, which is not exported. See Additional Arguments.
Additional arguments that can be passed in ...
are:
class
Desired class of return object: "sf"
(the default) or "sp"
. sp classes should be considered deprecated as of tigris version 2.0, but legacy support is still available.
progress_bar
If set to FALSE
, do not display download progress bar (helpful for R Markdown documents). Defaults to TRUE
.
keep_zipped_shapefile
If set to TRUE
, do not delete zipped shapefile (stored in temporary directory or TIGRIS_CACHE_DIR
depending on the configuration of global option "tigris_use_cache"
). Defaults to FALSE
.
refresh
Whether to re-download cached shapefiles (TRUE
or FALSE
) . The default is either FALSE
or the value of global
option "tigris_refresh"
if it is set. Specifying this argument will override the behavior set in "tigris_refresh"
global option.
filter_by
Geometry used to filter the output returned by the function. Can be an sf object, an object of class bbox
, or a length-4 vector of format c(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)
that can be converted to a bbox. Geometries that intersect the input to filter_by
will be returned.
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()
if (FALSE) {
library(tigris)
rls <- rails()
plot(rls$geometry)
}
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