Download a national primary roads shapefile into R
Description
From the Census Bureau: "Primary roads are generally divided, limited-access highways within the Federal interstate highway system or under state management. These highways are distinguished by the presence of interchanges and are accessible by ramps and may include some toll highways."
Usage
primary_roads(year = NULL, ...)
primary_roads(year = NULL, ...)
Arguments
year |
the data year; defaults to 2022 |
... |
arguments to be passed to internal function |
Value
an sf object with columns
-
LINEARID
: a unique line feature identifier (source) -
FULLNAME
: display name (source) -
RTTYP
: describes the types of roads used (source). Possible values are:-
"C": county
-
"I": interstate
-
"M": common name
-
"O": other
-
"S": state regonized
-
"U": U.S.
-
-
MTFCC
: 5-digit geographic code assignment (see annual assignments)
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 toFALSE
, do not display download progress bar (helpful for R Markdown documents). Defaults toTRUE
. -
keep_zipped_shapefile
If set toTRUE
, do not delete zipped shapefile (stored in temporary directory orTIGRIS_CACHE_DIR
depending on the configuration of global option"tigris_use_cache"
). Defaults toFALSE
. -
refresh
Whether to re-download cached shapefiles (TRUE
orFALSE
) . The default is eitherFALSE
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 classbbox
, or a length-4 vector of formatc(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)
that can be converted to a bbox. Geometries that intersect the input tofilter_by
will be returned.
See Also
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2020/TGRSHP2020_TechDoc.pdf
Other transportation functions:
address_ranges()
,
primary_secondary_roads()
,
rails()
,
roads()
Examples
## Not run: library(tigris) rds <- primary_roads() plot(rds$geometry) ## End(Not run)
## Not run: library(tigris) rds <- primary_roads() plot(rds$geometry) ## End(Not run)