Download 2020 Block Assignment Files for a State

Source: R/pl_get_baf.R

[Experimental] From the Census: "The Block Assignment Files (BAFs) are among the geographic products that the Census Bureau provides to states and other data users containing the small area census data necessary for legislative redistricting. The BAFs contain Census tabulation block codes and geographic area codes for a specific geographic entity type."

pl_get_baf(abbr, geographies = NULL, cache_to = NULL, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

abbr

the state abbreviation to get the BAF for

geographies

the geographies to get. Defaults to all available.

cache_to

the file name, if any, to cache the results to (as an RDS). If a file exists and refresh=FALSE, will read BAF from this file.

refresh

if TRUE, force a re-download of the BAF data.

Value

A list of data frames, one for each available BAF geography.

Examples

pl_get_baf("RI")
#> Download did not succeed. Try again.
#> NULL
pl_get_baf("RI", "VTD")
#> Download did not succeed. Try again.
#> NULL