Use sf instead of sp?

[hadley]

It's the way of the future!

[timelyportfolio]

This would be very nice. sf made this little example much easier to accomplish. Happy to help if I can. It might be as simple as converting everything and resaving the data files. Or, we could add an argument for class of returned data.

[hrbrmstr]

How about initially along with (these are "live")?

• counties_sf: Retreive a U.S. county composite map, optionally with a projection, as a simplefeature
• usa_sf: Retreive a U.S. state composite map, optionally with a projection, as a simplefeature

Granted this isn't on CRAN so wiping & loading would be possible. Has a geom_sf() stabilized somewhere?

[hadley]

tidyverse/ggplot2#1990

[hrbrmstr]

lemme add some examples for that to the README and if there is still work to be done in the geom I can _try_ to poke at but it turns out having a full time job and teaching two different college courses is actually a major time eradicator #whoknew?! :-)

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[hadley]

@hrbrmstr sure, no problems. I might also have time to contribute some fixes as I'm using this in a class that I'm co-teaching.

[hadley]

And generally, I'd be tempted to just drop sp support altogether — sf is so much easier, and since this is not on CRAN yet, you're unlikely to break much existing code.