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linear_water

Download an linear water shapefile into R

Description

From the US Census Bureau: "The linear hydrography shapefile contains all linear features with "H" (Hydrography) type MTFCCs in the MAF/TIGER database by county. The shapefiles are provided at a county geographic extent and in linear elemental feature geometry. The linear hydrography shapefile includes streams/rivers, braided streams, canals, ditches, artificial paths, and aqueducts. A linear hydrography feature may include edges with both perennial and intermittent persistence."

Usage

linear_water(state, county, year = NULL, ...)

Arguments

`state`	The two-digit FIPS code of the state of the county you'd like to download the water features for. Can also be state name or abbreviation (case-insensitive).
`county`	The three-digit FIPS code of the county you'd like the water features for. Can also be a county name.
`year`	the data year (defaults to 2019).
`...`	arguments to be passed to the underlying 'load_tiger' function, which is not exported. Options include `class`, which can be set to `"sf"` (the default) or `"sp"` to request sf or sp class objects, and `refresh`, which specifies whether or not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to `FALSE`).

Examples

## Not run: 
library(tigris)

dallas_water <- linear_water("TX", "Dallas")

plot(dallas_water$geometry)


## End(Not run)

tigris

Load Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles

v1.0

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Kyle Walker [aut, cre], Bob Rudis [ctb]

Initial release

2020-07-13