#' Tools, Shapefiles & Data to Work with an 'AlbersUSA' Composite Projection #' #' Creating a composite projection for states and counties of the United States #' that includes scaled and shifted polygons for Alaska and Hawaii is time consuming #' and potentially error-prone. Functions and data sets are provided to make it easier to #' produce maps with a composite projection. Furthermore, named projections for common #' transormations are provided to further increase mapping productivity. #' #' Newer \code{sf} (simple features) objects can be returned or legacy R #' spatial \code{sp} objects can be returned. #' #' Reference GeoJSON files are provided in the following locations (i.e. you can use #' them in any mapping program): #' #' \preformatted{ #' system.file("extdata/composite_us_states.geojson.gz", package="albersusa") #' system.file("extdata/composite_us_counties.geojson.gz", package="albersusa") #' } #' #' @name albersusa #' @docType package #' @author Bob Rudis (bob@@rud.is) #' @import sp rgeos rgdal maptools #' @import sf NULL