county_dist: Distance between county population centers.

In davidsovich/usgeogr: An R package for U.S. geographic data.

Description

county_dist measures the geographic distance between two counties. The location of each county is assumed to be its center of population. Function is vectorized and accounts for counties with NA matches to geographic coordinate data.

Usage

county_dist(fips_one, fips_two, miles = TRUE)

Arguments

fips_one	FIPS code of first county. Order does not matter.
fips_two	FIPS code of second county. Order does not matter.
miles	Binary flag for whether to return distance in miles (TRUE) or kilometers (FALSE).

Examples

county_dist(fips_one = "01003", fips_two = "01005", miles = TRUE)
county_dist(fips_one = temp_df$fips_code, fips_two = temp_df$neighbor_fips_code)

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