recode_state: Recode state abbreviations

In southwick-associates/salic: Prepare Agency Dashboard Data

Description

This is a convenience function to help standardize odd-looking state abbreviations based on a reference list of allowed abbreviations.

Usage

recode_state(dat, state_table, oldvar = "state", newvar = "state_new")

Arguments

dat	data frame: input data with a state variable
state_table	data frame: input data holding valid abbreviations
oldvar	character: name of state variable
newvar	character: name of new state variable

See Also

Other functions for standardizing state license data: recode_month, state_abbreviations

Examples

data(state_abbreviations)
dat <- data.frame(state = c("M0", "mo", "Mo", "MR", "YY"))
recode_state(dat, state_abbreviations)

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