On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:55:03 am Zembower, Kevin wrote: > I've been given the job of extracting some data from the United States > 2000 census (files at > http://www2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/Summary_File_2/Maryland/all_ > Maryland.zip 52M). I'm only interested in Census Block Groups (CBGs) > located within Baltimore City, Maryland. Additionally, I just have to > extract certain data fields. I think I'll be using Summary File 2. This > is my first experience working with US census data. > > I wasn't successful finding anything using RSiteSearch, although there > were some packages with data extracted from the US 2000 census. > > Are there any pre-constructed tools in R for working with this data? > Does the US 2000 census data itself come packaged in R? If there are no > R tools, I'd welcome any suggestions on working with this data from > anyone experienced with it. > > Thanks for your advice and suggestions for me. > > -Kevin >
Have a look at the PostGIS and GeoServer projects. I recall that there is an excellent tutorial on making sense of the TIGER data with PostGIS. Cheers, -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
