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Get field names etc for ACS tables

Source: R/get.table.info.R
get.table.info.Rd

Get info on tables from US Census Bureau for American Community Survey 5-year summary file.

Usage

get.table.info(
  tables,
  end.year = acsdefaultendyearhere_func(),
  table.info.only = TRUE,
  moe = FALSE
)

Arguments

tables

Required vector of tables such as "B01001"

end.year

Last year of 5-year summary file such as '2012'

table.info.only

TRUE by default. See get.field.info()

moe

FALSE by default. If TRUE, returns MOE versions of field names and descriptions.

Value

data.frame of information about each table and each variable in table:
Table.ID, Line.Number, Table.Title, table.var, varname2

# Value returned is data.frame of info about each table and also each variable in the table:

    Table.ID Line.Number                                                 Table.Title  table.var                                           varname2\cr

7 B01001 NA SEX BY AGE SEXBYAGE
8 B01001 NA Universe: Total population UniverseTotalpopulation
9 B01001 1 Total: B01001.001 Total
10 B01001 2 Male: B01001.002 Male

Details

Wrapper for get.table.info2() which is a wrapper for get.field.info()

See also

get.acs(), get.table.info(), and get.field.info()