Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples
currency.convert
provides a helper function to create a new
copy of an acs-class object with a modified currency.year and
converted dollar values without altering the original object.
1 | currency.convert(object, rate="auto", newyear=NA_integer_, verbose=FALSE)
|
object |
an acs object |
rate |
an optional rate to apply; "auto" (the default) will look up values from the cpi dataset. |
newyear |
an integer specifying the new value of currency.year to convert into |
verbose |
whether to print additional information about the conversion |
currency.convert
provides a helper function to create a new
copy of an acs-class object with a modified currency.year and
converted dollar values without altering the original object. When
rate="auto"
(the default), currency.convert
will look up
values from the cpi
database to use in conversion. When a
numeric rate is provided through this option, actual cpi
values
are ignored. When verbose=TRUE
, currency.convert will provide
additional information about the rates of conversion and the
acs.colnames converted.
As of version 2.0 the package includes CPI data from 1913 through 2015, allowing conversion of dollar values for any years in this range.
Returns a new acs object with updated dollar values and
currency.year
metadata.
Unlike currency.year<-
, currency.convert
does not alter
the original object.
Ezra Haber Glenn eglenn@mit.edu
1 2 3 | lawrence10 # median income data, endyear = 2010
currency.convert(lawrence10, newyear=2014) # convert $$ to 2014 dollars
currency.convert(lawrence10, newyear=1929) # convert $$ to 1929 dollars
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