City boundary of Chicago

A simple feature containing the city boundary of Chicago that can only be used with the sf package.

data("city_boundary_sf")

Format

A simple feature (which is either data.frame or tibble) with a geometry list-column with 1 observation on the following 5 variables:

name

CHICAGO

objectid

value of 1

shape_area

the approximate area of the polygon in square meters

shape_len

unknown

geometry

a list that contains the dimensions and the simple feature geometry type

Details

The following is sf installation advice from Matt Herman:

Depending on your operating system and available libraries, sf can be tricky to install the first time. The sf website is a good place to start if you're having trouble. If you're using macOS, this is a good guide to installing the required libraries.

Source

This sf object comes from the City of Chicago Data Portal, Boundaries - City. The file was last updated on June 30, 2017.

References

sf documentation has helpful information on how to work with sf objects.

See also

Examples

# load necessary packages ----
library(sf)

# load necessary data ----
data("city_boundary_sf")

# plot Chicago ----
par(mar = c(0, 0, 1, 0))

plot(city_boundary_sf$geometry
     , main = "City of Chicago boundary"
     , col = "gray85"
     , border = "dodgerblue4")