Read NHGIS.org ACS Codebook File

Helper function used by nhgis() to read downloaded and unzipped codebook files obtained from NHGIS.org, for US Census Bureau data from the American Community Survey (ACS).

Usage

nhgisreadcodebook(codebookfile, folder = getwd())

Arguments

codebookfile

Name(s) of codebook file(s).

folder

Optional path where files are found. Default is getwd()

Value

Returns a named list: data, contextfields, fields, tables, geolevel, years, dataset

See also

nhgis() which uses this, nhgisread() for reading datafiles, get.acs(), get.datafile.prefix(), datafile(), geofile(), get.zipfile.prefix()