zip_dist: Distance between ZCTA centroids.

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

Description

zip_dist measures the geographic distance between two ZCTAs. The location of each ZCTA is assumed to be its centroid. Returns NA values for ZIP codes that do not match to a ZCTA. Function is vectorized and accounts for NA matches.

Usage

zip_dist(zip_one, zip_two, miles = TRUE)

Arguments

zip_one	ZIP code of first ZCTA. Order does not matter.
zip_two	ZIP code of second ZCTA. Order does not matter.
miles	Binary flag for whether to return distance in miles (TRUE) or kilometers (FALSE).

Examples

zip_dist(fips_one = "89128", fips_two = "89034", miles = TRUE)
zip_dist(fips_one = temp_df$zips_one, fips_two = temp_df$neighbor_zips)

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