geoCounty: County geolocation lookup table

In housingData: U.S. Housing Data from 2008 to 2016

Description

Table of geographical coordinates of centroids of U.S. counties. Computed based on a procedure described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9441778/improve-centering-county-names-ggplot-maps.

Usage

geoCounty

Format

A data frame with 3075 rows and 7 columns.

Variables

• fips: FIPS county code

• county: county name

• state: state abbreviation

• lon: county centroid longitude

• lat: county centroid latitude

• rMapState: county name as can be looked up in calls to map() in the maps package

• rMapCounty: state abbreviation as can be looked up in calls to map() in the maps package

Examples

head(geoCounty)

Example output

   fips         county state       lon      lat rMapState rMapCounty
1 01001 Autauga County    AL -86.64565 32.54009   alabama    autauga
2 01003 Baldwin County    AL -87.72627 30.73831   alabama    baldwin
3 01005 Barbour County    AL -85.39733 31.87403   alabama    barbour
4 01007    Bibb County    AL -87.12526 32.99902   alabama       bibb
5 01009  Blount County    AL -86.56271 33.99044   alabama     blount
6 01011 Bullock County    AL -85.71680 32.10634   alabama    bullock

housingData documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:47 p.m.