State code look up
Function to simplify finding state and state code definitions. Used in readNWISdata
and readWQPdata
.
stateCdLookup(input, outputType = "postal")
input
: could be character (full name, abbreviation, id), or numeric (id)outputType
: character can be "postal", "fullName", "tableIndex", or "id".fullName <- stateCdLookup("wi", "fullName") abbriev <- stateCdLookup("Wisconsin", "postal") id <- stateCdLookup("WI", "id") name <- stateCdLookup(55, "fullName") index <- stateCdLookup("WI", "tableIndex") stateCd[index, ] stateCdLookup(c("West Virginia", "Wisconsin", 200, 55, "MN"))
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