totalcensus (version 0.6.6)

search_geoheaders: Search Geographic Headers

Description

Search in field reference or description of geographic header records to find the reference of "geo_headers" argument in function read_decennial, read_acs1year, and read_acs5year.

Usage

search_geoheaders(survey, years = NULL, keywords = NULL, view = TRUE)

Arguments

survey

survey type, including "dec" (or "decennial"), "acs1" or "acs5".

years

year or ending year of the survey, can be a single year such as 2010 or a vector like 2014:2016.

keywords

keyword to search in code or description, in the form like "abc def dsdfsa". Rows with all words are returned.

view

display the search result with View if TRUE

Value

data.table matching the search criteria

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Change view = TRUE (default) to View the returned data.
# search geoheader that contains keyword "india" in decennial 2010
aaa <- search_geoheaders("decennial", 2000, "india", view = FALSE)

# search for lattitude
bbb <- search_geoheaders("dec", 2010, "latitu", view = FALSE)


# }
# NOT RUN {
  # browse all geoheaders in ACS i year in View()
  search_geoheaders("acs1")
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }