PL94171: Tabulate P.L. 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files

Lifecycle: experimental R-CMD-check

CRAN status

The PL94171 package contains tools to process legacy format summary redistricting data files produced by the United States Census Bureau pursuant to P.L. 94-171. These files are generally available earlier but are difficult to work with as-is.

Installation

Install the latest version from CRAN with:

install.packages("PL94171")

You can also install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("CoryMcCartan/PL94171")

Basic Usage

Just need block- or precinct-level data for total and voting-age population by race? Then pl_tidy_shp() is all you need.

library(PL94171)
# put the path to the PL 94-171 files here, or use `pl_url()` to download them
pl_path = system.file("extdata/ri2018_2020Style.pl", package="PL94171")
pl_tidy_shp("RI", pl_path)
#> Simple feature collection with 569 features and 24 fields (with 86 geometries empty)
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -71.42641 ymin: 41.77238 xmax: -71.36969 ymax: 41.82
#> Geodetic CRS:  NAD83
#> # A tibble: 569 × 25
#>    GEOID           state county vtd     pop pop_hisp pop_white pop_black pop_aian
#>    <chr>           <chr> <chr>  <chr> <int>    <int>     <int>     <int>    <int>
#>  1 440070001011000 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  2 440070001011001 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  3 440070001011002 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  4 440070001011003 RI    Provi… 4428…    50        0        50         0        0
#>  5 440070001011004 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  6 440070001011005 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  7 440070001011006 RI    Provi… 4428…    18       18         0         0        0
#>  8 440070001011007 RI    Provi… 4428…     0        0         0         0        0
#>  9 440070001011008 RI    Provi… 4428…    86       86         0         0        0
#> 10 440070001011009 RI    Provi… 4428…    19        0         0        19        0
#> # … with 559 more rows, and 16 more variables: pop_asian <int>, pop_nhpi <int>,
#> #   pop_other <int>, pop_two <int>, vap <int>, vap_hisp <int>, vap_white <int>,
#> #   vap_black <int>, vap_aian <int>, vap_asian <int>, vap_nhpi <int>,
#> #   vap_other <int>, vap_two <int>, area_land <dbl>, area_water <dbl>,
#> #   geometry <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>

To tabulate at different geographies, or to extract other variables, check out the Getting Started page.