stdz_district: Standardize District

In alexanderfurnas/congressTools: Simple utility functions for working with Congressional data.

Description

This function takes a district, vector of districts or state and district seperately and returns standardized district names.

Usage

stdz_district <- function(full_district = character(), state, 
district, denote_sen = "00", denote_al = "01", sep = "-", 
old_sep = NA, sep_loc = NA)

Arguments

full_district	district or vector of districts.
state	state abbreviation or vector of state abbreviations.
district	district number or vector of district numbers.
denote_al	character to denote at large districts, in the district column, defaults to 01.
sep	separator to use in the new standardized district names, if old_sep is not specified it is also the separator input districts are split on.
sep_old	separator to split input districts on. Overrides sep for this role.
sep_loc	location to split state from district. Use if there is no separator between state abbreviation and district number in the input.

Value

A vector of standardized districts

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