xwalk_county: Collapse County-Level Data to New Baseline Borders

In jamesfeigenbaum/xwalkcounties: Standardize County Boundaries and Borders Across Censuses

Description

Take county data, identify variables of interest, standardize borders to baseline

Usage

xwalk_county(data, y0, yb, merge_key = c("state", "county"),
  var_value = NULL, var_count = NULL)

Arguments

data	county level data (likely from ICPSR 2896)
y0	initial year of data
yb	baseline year to transform data towards
merge_key	vector identifying the ICPSR state and county code if using ICPSR 2896, this is just state and county like so: c("state", "county")
var_value	variables that are values like average temperature or average wage as a vector like c("avgtemp", "avgwage")
var_count	variables that are counts like population or number of farms as a vector like c("totpop", "urb25")

jamesfeigenbaum/xwalkcounties documentation built on May 13, 2019, 11:26 a.m.