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read_municipal_seat

Download spatial data of municipal seats (sede dos municipios) in Brazil

Description

This function reads the official data on the municipal seats (sede dos municipios) of Brazil. The data brings the geographical coordinates (lat lon) of municipal seats for various years between 1872 and 2010. Original data were generated by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Usage

read_municipal_seat(year = 2010, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

`year`	A year number in YYYY format. Defaults to `2010`
`showProgress`	Logical. Defaults to `TRUE` display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

Examples

## Not run:  if (interactive()) {
# Read municipal seats in an specific year
m <- read_municipal_seat(year = 1991)
}
## End(Not run)

geobr

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

v1.6.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Rafael H. M. Pereira [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2125-7465>), Caio Nogueira Goncalves [aut], Paulo Henrique Fernandes de Araujo [ctb], Guilherme Duarte Carvalho [ctb], Rodrigo Almeida de Arruda [ctb], Igor Nascimento [ctb], Barbara Santiago Pedreira da Costa [ctb], Welligtton Silva Cavedo [ctb], Pedro R. Andrade [ctb], Alan da Silva [ctb], Carlos Kauê Vieira Braga [ctb], Carl Schmertmann [ctb], Alessandro Samuel-Rosa [ctb], Daniel Ferreira [ctb], Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research [cph, fnd]

Initial release

2021-04-15