county: Selects one or more counties in a given state
In UScensus2000: US Census 2000 Suite of R Packages

Description Usage Arguments Value Warning Author(s) References Examples

county allows the user to pull out the polygon and metadata of one or more county(s) from a given state.

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county(fips = NULL, name = NULL, state, level = c("tract", "blk", "blkgrp"), 

statefips = FALSE, sp.object=NULL, proj=NULL)

`fips`	a character string, takes a string of three characters (i.e. a county FIPS code (e.g. "001").
`name`	a character string, this must be the name of an actual county in the state (e.g. "Baker" county Oregon). This variable is insensitive to case.
`state`	a character string, can either be the full name (e.g. "oregon"), the abbreviation (e.g. "or"), or the FIPS code (e.g. "41")– note that if you are using the FIPS code you have to change `statefips` to `TRUE`. This variable is insensitive to case.
`level`	a character string, takes in one of three values: "tract", "blk", or "blkgrp". This defines the geographic level of data for the county.
`statefips`	logical, by default `statefips=FALSE`, change to `TRUE` when providing `state` with a FIPS code.
`sp.object`	`SpatialPolygonsDataFrame`, default `NULL`, allows the user to provide an sp object in which to perform this operation; primarily for use with `demographics.add`.
`proj`	CRS-class, takes a CRS object (e.g. CRS("+proj=utm +zone=10 +datum=NAD83") ); This is simply a wrapper for the `spTransform` function in `rgdal` . WARNING requires `rgdal` package.

An object of class SpatialPolygonsDataFrame.

You must have the packages UScensus2000blkgrp and UScensus2000blk installed to use levels "blkgrp" and "blk" respectively.

Zack W. Almquist almquist@uci.edu

Zack W. Almquist (2010). US Census Spatial and Demographic Data in R: The UScensus2000 Suite of Packages. Journal of Statistical Software, 37(6), 1-31. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i06/.

Census 2000 Summary File 1 [name of state1 or United States]/prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2001.
http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf1.pdf

#### look at the counties of Oregon
library(UScensus2000tract)
data(countyfips)
countyfips[countyfips$statename=="oregon",]

### The county fips code is the last three characters
county.f<-"001"
county.n<-c("deschutes","crook county")

## Pull out these counties
c1<-county(fips=county.f,state="or",level="tract")
c2<-county(name=county.n,state="or",level="tract")

##Plot counties
oregon.counties<-countyfips[countyfips$statename=="oregon",]
col<-cbind(c("red","blue"),c("013","017"))
plot(c2,col=col[match(c2$county,col[,2]),1],border="gray")
title("Deschutes and Crook counties, OR 2000")
coord<-coordinates(c2)
text(coord[c(1,4),],oregon.counties$countyname[oregon.counties$countyname%in%county.n],cex=2)