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Exercise

Getting simple feature geometry

tidycensus can obtain simple feature geometry for many geographies by adding the argument geometry = TRUE. In this exercise, you'll obtain a dataset of median housing values for owner-occupied units by Census tract in Orange County, California with simple feature geometry included.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Use the get_acs() function to get a dataset of median owner-occupied housing value by Census tract.
  • Set geometry = TRUE to request Census tract simple feature geometry.
  • Plot the estimate to view a map of the data.