Download shapefiles
Given a url to a shapefile in a compressed .zip file, download the file and unzip it into a folder in your working directory.
get_shp(url, folder = "shape")
url
: url to download a shapefile.folder
: what to name the new folder in your working directory containing the shapefileA folder in your working directory with the shapefile; filepaths are printed to the console.
library(sf) url <- "https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2019/shp/cb_2019_us_state_20m.zip" folder <- tempdir() print(folder) get_shp(url, folder) states <- sf::st_read(folder) head(states)