get.fips.bg: Get Census block group FIPS from block or block group FIPS

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Get Census block group FIPS from block or block group FIPS

Description

Extract partial FIPS code from longer FIPS code

Usage

get.fips.bg(fips)

Arguments

fips	Vector of one or more elements, character class, 12 or 15 characters long FIPS (block group or block), required.

Details

For information on FIPS codes, see http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ansi.html, and also see https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/geoidentifiers.html It does not check to see if the codes are valid other than counting how many characters each has.

Value

Returns a vector of one or more character elements, same lengths as fips

See Also

clean.fips()

Examples

samplefips <- c("011030001003", "011030001003001", 11030001003001, 35, 1, NA, 'invalidtext', '02')
get.fips.bg(samplefips)

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