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read_neighborhood

Download spatial data of neighborhood limits of Brazilian municipalities

Description

This data set includes the neighborhood limits of 720 Brazilian municipalities. It is based on aggregations of the census tracts from the Brazilian census. Only 2010 data is currently available.

Usage

read_neighborhood(year = 2010, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

`year`	Year of the data. Defaults to `2010`
`simplified`	Logic `FALSE` or `TRUE`, indicating whether the function returns the data set with 'original' resolution or a data set with 'simplified' borders. Defaults to `TRUE`. For spatial analysis and statistics users should set `simplified = FALSE`. Borders have been simplified by removing vertices of borders using `st_simplify{sf}` preserving topology with a `dTolerance` of 100.
`showProgress`	Logical. Defaults to 'TRUE“ display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

Examples

## Not run:  if (interactive()) {
# Read neighborhoods of Brazilian municipalities
n <- read_neighborhood(year=2010)
}
## 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