Prepare Streets Database — gc_prep_street

Download and format address ranges from the Census TIGER/Line API, and then store in Arrow format. One of county or zip must be provided.

Usage

gc_prep_street_db(
  data,
  path = gc_cache_path(),
  year = 2022,
  save_edge = TRUE,
  save_face = TRUE,
  save_cens = FALSE,
  refresh = FALSE
)

Arguments

data: A data frame containing columns state_code and either county_code, zip, or city, such as the output of gc_address().
path: The folder where the database will be stored. See gc_cache_path() and the README for more information.
year: The year to download data for.
save_edge: Whether to save road edge shapefile information. Needed to use gc_code_pt().
save_face: Whether to save shapefile face information. Needed to use gc_code_block().
save_cens: Whether to save additional Census geographies (school districts, NECTAs, etc.) for matching with gc_code_block(). Only applies if save_face=TRUE.
refresh: If TRUE, force re-downloading of the Census data.

Value

The data, invisibly.

Examples

# \donttest{
# may take longer than 5 seconds
gc_prep_street_db(data.frame(state_code = "37", county_code = "055"))
gc_prep_street_db(data.frame(state_code = "37", county_code = "055",
                             zip = "27920", city = "Buxton"))
# }