stateCdLookup function

State code look up

State code look up

Function to simplify finding state and state code definitions. Used in readNWISdata

and readWQPdata.

stateCdLookup(input, outputType = "postal")

Arguments

  • input: could be character (full name, abbreviation, id), or numeric (id)
  • outputType: character can be "postal", "fullName", "tableIndex", or "id".

Examples

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"))