Read the geosuite data — get_statcan_geographies • cancensus

Reads the original unprocessed geographic boundary files from Statistics Canada

get_statcan_geographies(
  census_year,
  level,
  type = "cartographic",
  cache_path = NULL,
  timeout = 1000,
  refresh = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

census_year: census year to get the data for, right now only 2021 is supported
level: geographic level to return the data for, valid choices are "PR","CD","CMACA","CSD","CT","ADA","DA","ER","FED","DPL","POPCNTR", "FSA"
type: type of geographic data, valid choices area "cartographic" or "digital"
cache_path: optional path to cache the data. If the cancensus cache path is set the geographic data gets cached in the "geographies" subdirectory of the cancensus cache path.
timeout: optional timeout parameter, adjust as needed if the data download times out when using slow connections
refresh: (logical) refresh the cache if true
quiet: (logical) suppress messages if `TRUE`

Value

a spatial dataframe with the geographic data

Examples

# get the digital geographic boundaries for provinces and territories
if (FALSE) {
get_statcan_geographies(census_year="2021",level="PR",type="digital")
}