alaska {spData} | R Documentation

## Alaska multipolygon

### Description

The object loaded is a `sf` object containing the state of Alaska from the US Census Bureau with a few variables from American Community Survey (ACS)

### Usage

    alaska

### Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 1 obs. of 7 variables:

- GEOID character vector of geographic identifiers

- NAME character vector of state names

- REGION character vector of region names

- AREA area in square kilometers of units class

- total_pop_10 numerical vector of total population in 2010

- total_pop_15 numerical vector of total population in 2015

- geometry sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in projected coordinates using Alaska Albers (EPSG:3467).

### Source

https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html

### See Also

See the tigris package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tigris

### Examples

    if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
      library(sf)
      data(alaska)

      plot(alaska["total_pop_15"])
    }

[Package spData version 0.2.9.0 Index]