README.md

In childpovertyactionlab/CPAL: Custom Package for the Child Poverty Action Lab

cpaltools

NOTE: This project is still under active development.

library(cpaltools) contains R based functions for and templates for managing analysis workflows at the Urban Institute. It heavily relies on functions and functionality from the tidyverse.

Installation

You can install the latest version of cpaltools from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("childpovertyactionlab/cpaltools")

Usage

library(cpaltools) contains three families of functions:

Geo* functions related to geographic interactions within data that are not currently available within commonly used GIS packages such as sf.

extract_* utility functions focused on extracting specific pieces of information from a string.

get_* loop functions related to downloading multiple years of data from various api's such as tidycensus

Geo* functions

• GeoIntersect() Similar to the summarize within functionality within ArcGIS. Compares fields between two geography types and generates estimates between them.

extract_* functions

• extract_zip() Extracts the 5 digit zip code from a string address.
• extract_city() Extracts a city name from a string address.

get_* functions

• get_acs_years() Pulls multiple years of data from the census api through tidycensus for specified fields, geographies, and years.

childpovertyactionlab/CPAL documentation built on Feb. 23, 2025, 8:19 a.m.