nhgisreadcodebook: Read NHGIS.org ACS Codebook File

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

Read NHGIS.org ACS Codebook File

Description

Helper function used by nhgis() to read downloaded and unzipped codebook files obtained from NHGIS.org, for US Census Bureau data from the American Community Survey (ACS).

Usage

nhgisreadcodebook(codebookfile, folder = getwd())

Arguments

codebookfile	Name(s) of codebook file(s).
folder	Optional path where files are found. Default is getwd()

Value

Returns a named list: data, contextfields, fields, tables, geolevel, years, dataset

See Also

nhgis() which uses this, nhgisread() for reading datafiles, get.acs(), get.datafile.prefix(), datafile(), geofile(), get.zipfile.prefix()

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