readers: GLP Readers

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GLP Readers

Description

Read a folder of files to a data frame

Usage

any_time(folder, starting_year = 2005, skip = 0, col_types = NULL, read_fxn)

acs_time(folder, geog = "FIPS", starting_year = 2005, additional_geogs = "")

brfss_time(folder)

business_time(folder, starting_year = 2004)

insurance_time(directory = "", starting.year = 2008)

unemployment_time(folder, starting_year = 2000)

wonder_time(folder, geog_type = "FIPS")

Arguments

folder	A path to a folder containing files. Years are assigned based on the file order, so the alphabetical order should match the chronological order.
starting_year	The first year for which there is data.
skip	Number of lines to skip from the top of the file
col_types	Types of columns to pass to the reader functions
read_fxn	Reader function
geog	The geographic level of the data, usually FIPS, MSA, or tract
additional_geogs	Additional geographies to be included in the final data frame.

Value

A data frame subset to peers

Functions

• any_time(): Reads in a folder of data

• acs_time(): Reads in a folder of ACS data

• brfss_time(): Reads in a folder of BRFSS data

• business_time(): Reads in a folder of County Business Pattern data

• insurance_time(): Reads in a folder of SAIHI data

• unemployment_time(): Reads in a folder of CPS unemployment data

• wonder_time(): Read in CDC Wonder data Each file in the folder should be named according to the FIPS code of the data.

Examples

acs_time("bach_plus", additional_geogs = "21067")

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