name_to_abbr {covidcast} | R Documentation |
Get state abbreviations from state names
Description
Look up state abbreviations by state names (including District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico); this function is based on grep()
, and hence allows for
regular expressions.
Usage
name_to_abbr(
name,
ignore.case = FALSE,
perl = FALSE,
fixed = FALSE,
ties_method = c("first", "all")
)
Arguments
name |
Vector of state names to look up. |
ignore.case , perl , fixed |
Arguments to pass to |
ties_method |
If "first", then only the first match for each name is returned. If "all", then all matches for each name are returned. |
Value
A vector of state abbreviations if ties_method
equals "first", and
a list of state abbreviations otherwise.
See Also
Examples
name_to_abbr("Penn")
name_to_abbr(c("Penn", "New"), ties_method = "all")
[Package covidcast version 0.5.2 Index]