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US states polygons

Source: R/us_states.R
us_states.Rd

The object loaded is a sf object containing the contiguous United States data from the US Census Bureau with a few variables from American Community Survey (ACS)

Usage

us_states

Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 49 obs. of 7 variables:

  • GEOID: character vector of geographic identifiers

  • NAME: character vector of state names

  • REGION: character vector of region names

  • AREA: area in square kilometers of units class

  • total_pop_10: numerical vector of total population in 2010

  • total_pop_15: numerical vector of total population in 2015

  • geometry: sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in geographical coordinates using the NAD83 datum.

Source

https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html

See also

See the tigris package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tigris

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(us_states)

  plot(us_states["REGION"])
}