FIPS - Get county or state names from county or state FIPS codes

FIPS - Get county or state names from county or state FIPS codes

Usage

fips2name(fips, ...)

Arguments

fips

vector of US Census FIPS codes for

• States (2 digits once any required leading zeroes are included)

• Counties (5)

• City/town/CDP (7)

• Tracts (11)

• Blockgroups (12) Can be string or numeric, with or without leading zeroes.

...

passed to fips2countyname() to control whether it appends something like , NY or , New York after county name

Value

vector of state and/or county names, where county names optionally have comma and 2-character abbreviation or full state name.

See also

countyname2fips()

Examples

  fips2name(fips_counties_from_state_abbrev(c("AK", "LA"))  )
  fips2name(c(22, 02013))  # can have mix where some are a whole state and others are a county.