Get info on tables from US Census Bureau for American Community Survey 5-year summary file.
Usage
get.field.info(
tables,
end.year = acsdefaultendyearhere_func(),
table.info.only = FALSE,
moe = FALSE,
basic = FALSE,
silent = FALSE
)Arguments
- tables
Required vector of tables such as "B01001"
- end.year
Last year of 5-year summary file such as '2018'
- table.info.only
FALSE by default. If TRUE, only return info about the table(s), not variables in table(s).
- moe
FALSE by default. Margin of error variables also included if TRUE, but their names are identical to those of estimates fields other than being MOE instead of estimate.
- basic
FALSE by default. If TRUE, a very limited subset of the info is returned (just variable number and name). This parameter is ignored if table.info.only=TRUE
- silent
Optional logical, FALSE by default. Whether to send progress info to standard output (like the screen)
Value
data.frame of information about each table and each variable in table:
Value returned is data.frame of info about each table and also each variable in the table
e.g., longname2 which is version where no spaces or colons or escaped quotation marks etc.
Details
Uses get.lookup.acs() but for latest version could just use data(lookup.acs)
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
finfo <- get.field.info(c('B17020A', 'B17020H'))
cbind(
names(tracts), substr(finfo$longname.unique[match(names(tracts), finfo$shortname)], 1, 100)
)
foundnames <- names(tracts)[names(tracts) %in% finfo$shortname]
cbind(
foundnames, substr(finfo$longname.unique[match(foundnames, finfo$shortname)], 1, 100)
)
} # }