countyCdLookup: County code look up

In dataRetrieval: Retrieval Functions for USGS and EPA Hydrology and Water Quality Data

County code look up

Description

Function to simplify finding county and county code definitions. Used in readNWISdata and readNWISuse.

Usage

countyCdLookup(state, county, outputType = "id")

Arguments

state	could be character (full name, abbreviation, id), or numeric (id)
county	could be character (name, with or without "County") or numeric (id)
outputType	character can be "fullName", "tableIndex", "id", or "fullEntry".

Examples

id <- countyCdLookup(state = "WI", county = "Dane")
name <- countyCdLookup(state = "OH", county = 13, output = "fullName")
index <- countyCdLookup(state = "Pennsylvania", county = "ALLEGHENY COUNTY", output = "tableIndex")
fromIDs <- countyCdLookup(state = 13, county = 5, output = "fullName")
already_correct <- countyCdLookup(county = "51001")

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