USPopulationSampler: Population-Weighted Sampling of Geographic Locations in the United States

Generate geospatial locations within census block groups (BG; the smallest geographic unit for which population counts are available) within target counties, states, or across the entirety of the U.S. randomly selected according to population counts by using the Census Bureau reference data and optionally allow users to conduct temporal assignments on sampled locations using Covid-19 data.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: curl, parallel, sf, arrow, data.table, utils, stats
Suggests: dplyr, usmap, ggplot2, tigris, patchwork, lubridate, lwgeom, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), spelling
Published: 2026-09-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.USPopulationSampler (may not be active yet)
Author: Rithy Techavoan Yean [aut, cre, cph], Andrew Holbrook [aut, cph], Jasen Zhang [ctb]
Maintainer: Rithy Techavoan Yean <techavoan at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/Techavoan/USPopulationSampler/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/Techavoan/USPopulationSampler
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: USPopulationSampler results

Documentation:

Reference manual: USPopulationSampler.html , USPopulationSampler.pdf

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Package source: USPopulationSampler_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): USPopulationSampler_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): USPopulationSampler_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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