california.tract10 {RapidPolygonLookup}

Census Tract spatial polygons for the state of California

Description

Object of class SpatialPolygonsDataFrame containing spatial polygons of Census tracts in California. The object has been originally created from the 2010 US Census tiger/line boundary files (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/) for Census Tracts. The polygons have been manually cropped to the area in and around San Francisco.

Usage

data(california.tract10)

Format

An object of class SpatialPolygonsDataFrame from the sp package

data

data frame containing information for 457 variables (excluding ids) available from the summary file 1

polygons

polygons of Census Tracts

plotOrder

plotting order of polygons

bbox

bounding box of spatial polygons

proj4string

projection of polygons. All polygons are projected in CRS(" +proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs +towgs84=0,0,0")

Details

For details on the summary variables present in the data frame please refer

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

Source

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/UScensus2010/index.html

References

Zack W. Almquist (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(6), 1-31. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i06/ http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

Examples

data(california.tract10, envir = environment())
plot(california.tract10)