name_to_fips {covidcast} | R Documentation |
Get FIPS or CBSA codes from county or metropolitan area names
Description
Look up FIPS or CBSA codes by county or metropolitan area names,
respectively; these functions are based on grep()
, and hence allow for
regular expressions.
Usage
name_to_fips(
name,
ignore.case = FALSE,
perl = FALSE,
fixed = FALSE,
ties_method = c("first", "all"),
state = NULL
)
name_to_cbsa(
name,
ignore.case = FALSE,
perl = FALSE,
fixed = FALSE,
ties_method = c("first", "all"),
state = NULL
)
Arguments
name |
Vector of county or metropolitan area 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. |
state |
Two letter state abbreviation (case insensitive) indicating a
parent state used to restrict the search. For example, when |
Value
A vector of FIPS or CBSA codes if ties_method
equals "first", and a
list of FIPS or CBSA codes otherwise.
See Also
state_fips_to_name()
, cbsa_to_name()
Examples
name_to_fips("Allegheny")
name_to_cbsa("Pittsburgh")
name_to_fips("Miami")
name_to_fips("Miami", ties_method = "all")
name_to_fips(c("Allegheny", "Miami", "New "), ties_method = "all")