Read IPUMS geometry using ipumsr::read_ipums_sf

Read IPUMS geometry using ipumsr::read_ipums_sf

Usage

read_ipums_geometry(
  shape_file = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  file_select = NULL,
  vars = "GISJOIN",
  encoding = NULL,
  bind_multiple = TRUE,
  add_layer_var = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

shape_file

Path to a single .shp file or a .zip archive containing at least one .shp file. See Details section.

file_select

If shape_file is a .zip archive that contains multiple files, an expression identifying the files to load. Accepts a character string specifying the file name, a tidyselect selection, or index position. If multiple files are selected, bind_multiple must be equal to TRUE.

vars

Names of variables to include in the output. Accepts a character vector of names or a tidyselect selection. If NULL, includes all variables in the file.

encoding

Encoding to use when reading the shape file. If NULL, defaults to "latin1" unless the file includes a .cpg metadata file with encoding information. The default value should generally be appropriate.

bind_multiple

If TRUE and shape_file contains multiple .shp files, row-bind the files into a single sf object. Useful when shape_file contains multiple files that represent the same geographic units for different extents (e.g. block-level data for multiple states).

add_layer_var

If TRUE, add a variable to the output data indicating the file that each row originates from. Defaults to FALSE unless bind_multiple = TRUE and multiple files exist in shape_file.

The column name will always be prefixed with "layer", but will be adjusted to avoid name conflicts if another column named "layer" already exists in the data.

verbose

If TRUE report additional progress information on load.