state_info {fivethirtyeight}R Documentation

Information on each state

Description

State name, abbreviation, US Census designated division & region.

Usage

state_info

Format

A data frame with 51 rows representing airlines and 4 variables:

state

State name

state_abbrev

State abbreviation

division

US Census designated division. Values for division are nested within region

region

US Census designated region

Source

US Census Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Interstate_regions.

Examples

library(dplyr)
# Number of states in each division
state_info %>%
  count(division)
# Number of states in each region
state_info %>%
  count(region)

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