income_recode: Recode income values
In dpowerstp/acsprocess: Process tidycensus downloaded ACS data

income_recode

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Recode income values

Creates shortened names for incomes in tidycensus downloaded ACS data

income_recode(df, income_col, new_income = "income_recode", rent_own = F)

`df`	A tidycensus downloaded dataset with an income column
`income_col`	The name of the column in the tidycensus dataset containing original income values
`new_income`	The name of the new, factorized column with shortened income values
`rent_own`	Whether to revalue the 100k income range to be inclusive of different income ranges for owners and renters (i.e., if you want to compare renter and owner incomes).