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Download and standardize a single NYC boundary dataset

Source: R/process_dataset.R
process_dataset.Rd

Downloads a geographic boundary dataset, reads it into an sf object, reprojects to EPSG:4326, and standardizes the columns to a common schema (id, name_col, optionally name_alt, and geometry).

Usage

process_dataset(
  dataset_info,
  auto_detect_latest = TRUE,
  preferred_cycle = NULL,
  external_data_dir = "data/external"
)

Arguments

dataset_info

A single-row tibble or list with elements id, dataset_name, url, name_col, name_alt, and source_type.

auto_detect_latest

Logical. Passed to resolve_dcp_cycle() for DCP zip sources. Default TRUE.

preferred_cycle

Optional cycle letter passed to resolve_dcp_cycle().

external_data_dir

Path to a directory containing local fallback files (e.g., ibz.zip). Default "data/external".

Value

A list with components:

  • gdf: An sf object with standardized columns, or NULL on failure.

  • meta: A list with id, original_url, resolved_url, cycle, auto_detected, status, and error.