search_tablecontents: Search Table Contents

In totalcensus: Extract Decennial Census and American Community Survey Data

Description

Search in lookup datasets of each survey to find references of table_contents argument in function read_decennial, read_acs1year, and read_acs5year.

Usage

search_tablecontents(survey, years = NULL, keywords = NULL, view = TRUE)

Arguments

survey	survey type, including "dec" (or "decennial"), "acs1" or "acs5".
years	year or ending year of the survey, can be a single year such as 2010 or a vector like 2014:2016.
keywords	keyword to search in code or description, in the form like "abc def dsdfsa". Rows with all words are returned.
view	display the search result with View if TRUE

Value

A data.table

Examples

# Change view = TRUE (default) to View the returned data.
# search by what you want
aaa <- search_tablecontents("dec", 2000, "federal prison", view = FALSE)

## Not run: 
  # view all decennial census table contents
  search_tablecontents("dec")

  # view all ACS 5 year table contents
  search_tablecontents("acs5")

## End(Not run)

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