The object loaded is a sf
object containing the contiguous United States data from the US Census Bureau
with a few variables from American Community Survey (ACS)
us_states
Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 49 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 geographical coordinates using the NAD83 datum.
See the tigris package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=tigris
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
library(sf)
data(us_states)
plot(us_states["REGION"])
}