R/US_Counties.R

In polimetrics: R Tools for Political Measures

#' US Counties Information for Merging
#'
#' This data set provides common names and abbreviations for U.S. counties to enable merging with various data sets.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 3104 observations and 8 variables.
#' \tabular{ll}{ \cr
#'  countystate \tab proper county name and state name \cr
#'  state_name \tab proper state name \cr
#'  county_name \tab proper county name \cr
#'  county_fips \tab county FIPS \cr
#'  state_abbv \tab abbreviated state name \cr
#'	state_name_cap \tab capitalized state name \cr
#'	state_name_cap_nominate \tab capitalized state name, shortened (as in DW-NOMINATE data) \cr
#'	state_fips \tab state FIPS \cr
#' }

#'
"US_Counties"