uscgh.2010.decode: Return text describing the meaning of a value in a column
In us.census.geoheader: US 2010 Census SF2 Geographic Header Summary Levels 010-050

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View source: R/uscgh.R

uscgh.2010.decode() returns a textual description of a cell

1	uscgh.2010.decode(colname, colvalue = "", warnings = TRUE)

`colname`	Name of the column to be described.
`colvalue`	Value whose description is wanted (\"""\" – the default – to describe, generically, 'colname' itself).
`warnings`	Whether a '(colname,colvalue)' tuple that is not successfully decoded should produce a warning message. (In any event, the result will be NULL.)

takes as input the name of a column in the Geographic Header file from the 2010 US census, and a value found in that column, and attempts to return a description of the meaning of that value.

A character string describing the 'colname' or '(colname,colvalue)' tuple, if found. If not found, 'NULL' is returned (and, if 'warnings' is 'TRUE', a warning is generated).

'RShowDoc("a-tour", package="us.census.geoheader")' for a short tour of a few columns of the database