join.geo.to.tablist: Join US ACS data and US geo files on FIPS

In ejanalysis/ACSdownload: Obtain American Community Survey Summary File Data Tables from Census Bureau FTP Site (for EJ analysis, etc.)

Join US ACS data and US geo files on FIPS

Description

Read the processed csv files of estimates and MOE (margin of error) for American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year summary file data obtained from US Census FTP site, and join with geographic information from geo file.

Usage

join.geo.to.tablist(
  mygeo,
  my.list.of.tables,
  save.csv = FALSE,
  sumlevel = "both",
  folder = getwd(),
  testing = FALSE,
  end.year = acsdefaultendyearhere_func()
)

Arguments

mygeo	Required geo file. See get.acs() and get.read.geo()
my.list.of.tables	List of data tables resulting from prior steps in get.acs()
save.csv	FALSE by default. Specifies whether to save each data table as csv format file.
sumlevel	Default is "both", specifies if "tracts" or "blockgroups" or "both" should be used.
folder	Default is current working directory.
testing	Default is FALSE. If TRUE, prints more information.
end.year	Default is "" – used in naming file if save.csv=TRUE

Value

Returns a list of data.frames, where each element of the list is one ACS table, such as table B01001.

See Also

get.acs() and get.read.geo()

ejanalysis/ACSdownload documentation built on Jan. 18, 2025, 7:43 a.m.