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Create separate data.tables, and optionally save them in the EJAM package This is just done when Census FIPS or bounds or points change.

Source: R/census2020_save_datasets.R
census2020_save_datasets.Rd

Create separate data.tables, and optionally save them in the EJAM package This is just done when Census FIPS or bounds or points change.

Usage

census2020_save_datasets(
  x,
  metadata = NULL,
  add_metadata = TRUE,
  save_as_data_for_package = FALSE,
  overwrite = TRUE
)

Arguments

x

a single data.table called blocks that is from census2020_get_data(), with colnames blockfips, pop, area, lat, lon

metadata

default is Census 2020 related, tries to use EJAM package

add_metadata

logical, whether to add EJAM-related metadata about date and version

save_as_data_for_package

logical, whether to do usethis::use_data() here

overwrite

default is TRUE, but only relevant if usethis = TRUE

Value

A named list of these huge data.tables for the EJAM package:

See also

census2020_save_datasets() creates individual data.tables, after census2020_get_data() has done these: