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  <dc:title>Population-Weighted Sampling of Geographic Locations in the
United States</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package USPopulationSampler version 0.1.1</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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. </dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: curl, parallel, sf, arrow, data.table, utils, stats</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: dplyr, usmap, ggplot2, tigris, patchwork, lubridate, lwgeom,
testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), spelling</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Rithy Techavoan Yean &lt;techavoan@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Rithy Techavoan Yean [aut, cre, cph],
  Andrew Holbrook [aut, cph],
  Jasen Zhang [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=USPopulationSampler/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-12</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=USPopulationSampler</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.USPopulationSampler</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
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