Download TIGER county spatial data.

Shortcut function that downloads and extracts TIGER U.S. County boundaries and returns them as a terra SpatVector object.

Usage

download_counties(template, output = tempfile(fileext = ".gpkg"))

Arguments

template

A SpatRaster object.

output

A character file path specifying where the raster file should be stored. Defaults to a temporary file.

Value

A terra SpatVector object. If API resources are not available an invisible NULL is returned.

Examples

# example code
# \donttest{
## This example requires an internet connection to run
dem <- system.file("extdata", "thompsoncreek.tif", package = "SELECTRdata")
dem <- terra::rast(dem)

counties <- download_counties(template = dem)
# }