USStatesBG {micromapST}R Documentation

USStatesBG border group datasets to support use with U.S. States amd D.C. Areas

Description

The micromapST function has the ability to generate linked micromaps for any geographical area. To specify the geographical area, the bordGrp call argument is used to specify the border group dataset for the geographical area. When micromapSt function is used to micromap the U.S. States and DC areas, no border group needs to be specified. The USStatesBG border group is the same as the original sub-areas (states and DC) and boundaries used by the all previous versions of the micromapST package. By default micromapST loads the area fullnames, abbreviations, IDs and boundaries files for 50 U. S. states and the District of Columbia for the processing of user data and the creation of the requested linked micromap.

Details

The USStatesBG border group contains in the following data.frames:

areaParms

- specific parameters associated with this border group

areaNamesAbbrsIDs

- containing the names, abbreviations, numerical identifier and alias matching string for each of the 51 U. S. States and D.C.

areaVisBorders

- the boundary point lists for each of the 51 States and D.C..

L2VisBorders

- the boundaries for the U. S. states and DC. It is identical to areaVisBorders data.frame.

RegVisBorders

- the boundaries for the 4 U. S. census regions

L3VisBorders

- the boundary of the U.S

Refer to the section on the border group data.frames for a detailed discussion on the formats and usage of each of the above data.frame.

In this border group, there are 51 areas (states and DC) and information and names in the areaNamesAbbrIDs data.frame and there boundaries in the areaVisBorders data.frame. The L2VisBorders data.frame contains a copy of the areaVisBorders data.frame to allow heavier overlaying of the state and DC boundaries during mapping. The RegVisBorders data.frame contains the information and boundaries for the 4 U. S. census regions. The L3VisBorders dataset contains the information on the boundaries of the U.S.

Alaska and Hawaii are relocated to below California and Alaska is reduced in size by 50

The names, abbreviations, id, and assigned U. S. regions used in the areaNamesAbbrsIDs data.frame the the 50 U. S. States and DC are as follows:

name ab id region
Alabama AL 01 South
Alaska AK 02 West
Arizona AZ 04 West
Arkansas AR 05 South
California CA 06 West
Colorado CO 08 West
Connecticut CT 09 NorthEast
Delaware DE 10 South
DC DC 11 South
Florida FL 12 South
Georgia GA 13 South
Hawaii HI 15 West
Idaho ID 16 West
Illinois IL 17 MidWest
Indiana IN 18 MidWest
Iowa IA 19 MidWest
Kansas KS 20 MidWest
Kentucky KY 21 South
Louisiana LA 22 South
Maine ME 23 NorthEast
Maryland MD 24 South
Massachusetts MA 25 NorthEast
Michigan MI 26 MidWest
Minnesota MN 27 MidWest
Mississippi MI 28 South
Missouri MO 29 MidWest
Montana MT 30 West
Nebraska NE 31 MidWest
Neveda NV 32 West
New Hampshire NH 33 NorthEast
New Jersey NJ 34 NorthEast
New Mexico NM 35 West
New York NY 36 NorthEast
North Carolina NC 37 South
North Dakota ND 38 MidWest
Ohio OH 39 MidWest
Oklahoma OK 40 South
Oregon OR 41 West
Pennsylvania PA 42 NorthEast
Rhode Island RI 44 NorthEast
South Carolina SC 45 South
South Dakota SD 46 MidWest
Tennessee TN 47 South
Texas TX 48 South
Utah UT 49 West
Vermont VT 50 NorthEast
Virginia VA 51 South
Washington WA 53 West
West Virginia WV 54 South
Wisconsin WI 55 MidWest
Wyoming WY 56 West

All data must be tagged with the name, abbreviation or id strings to be able to find the associated boundaries information. With the USStatesBG only, the package will accept several variations on the full name for DC. They include: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, and D. C. All can be with or without punctuation and upper and lower case. When detected, the name is translated to "DC".

The dataRegionsOnly call parameter can be set to TRUE to request the package to limit the mapping to only states in regional areas where data is being mapped and omit states and regions that do not contain data. This allows the caller to focus the micromaps on one of the four (4) census regions: NorthEast, South, Midwest, or West.

The rowNames = alias, rowNames = alt_ab are not support in the USStatesBG border group.

Source

NIST - Federal Information Processing Standards and U. S. Census website.

References

NIST FIPS 6-4 Standards


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