Add Areal Unit Identifiers to Point Data

Source: R/identify.R

Apply identifiers from a selection of commonly used areal units to point data stored in a sf object.

gw_identify(.data, to, side = "right", class = "sf")

Arguments

.data

A sf object
to

The string name of an areal unit to aggregate to: "block group", "tract", "precinct", "ward", or "neighborhood".
side

One of either "right" or "left" indicating where the identifier variable should be placed in the
class

One of either "sf" (default) or "tibble".

Value

gw_identify returns either a sf object or tibble with the requested data.