README.md

usa

The goal of ‘usa’ is to provide updated versions of the ‘datasets’ objects included with R. When attached, this package overwrites these original vectors with information on all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. As of now, information on the other territories are provided in separate objects.

Installation

You can install the release version of ‘usa’ from CRAN with:

install.packages("usa")

Or the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("k5cents/usa")

Base Data

R ships with eight outdated objects in the ‘datasets’ package: 7 vectors and a matrix of statistics from the 1970’s.

head(base.vectors)
#>         name abb region           division   area  center.x center.y
#> 1    Alabama  AL  South East South Central  51609  -86.7509  32.5901
#> 2     Alaska  AK   West            Pacific 589757 -127.2500  49.2500
#> 3    Arizona  AZ   West           Mountain 113909 -111.6250  34.2192
#> 4   Arkansas  AR  South West South Central  53104  -92.2992  34.7336
#> 5 California  CA   West            Pacific 158693 -119.7730  36.5341
#> 6   Colorado  CO   West           Mountain 104247 -105.5130  38.6777

head(state.x77)
#>            Population Income Illiteracy Life Exp Murder HS Grad Frost   Area
#> Alabama          3615   3624        2.1    69.05   15.1    41.3    20  50708
#> Alaska            365   6315        1.5    69.31   11.3    66.7   152 566432
#> Arizona          2212   4530        1.8    70.55    7.8    58.1    15 113417
#> Arkansas         2110   3378        1.9    70.66   10.1    39.9    65  51945
#> California      21198   5114        1.1    71.71   10.3    62.6    20 156361
#> Colorado         2541   4884        0.7    72.06    6.8    63.9   166 103766

New Data

This package contains new, expanded versions of these vectors.

setdiff(usa::state.abb, datasets::state.abb)
#> [1] "DC" "PR"
unique(usa::state.region)
#> [1] South     West      Northeast Midwest   <NA>     
#> Levels: Northeast Midwest South West
show(usa::territory.abb)
#> [1] "AS" "GU" "MP" "UM" "VI"

The package contains tibbles identifying the states and providing updated facts and figures.

usa::states
#> # A tibble: 52 × 8
#>   name       abb   fips  region division              area   lat   long
#>   <chr>      <chr> <chr> <fct>  <fct>                <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl>
#> 1 Alabama    AL    01    South  East South Central  50647.  32.7  -86.8
#> 2 Alaska     AK    02    West   Pacific            571017.  63.4 -153. 
#> 3 Arizona    AZ    04    West   Mountain           113653.  34.3 -112. 
#> 4 Arkansas   AR    05    South  West South Central  52038.  34.9  -92.4
#> 5 California CA    06    West   Pacific            155854.  37.2 -120. 
#> 6 Colorado   CO    08    West   Mountain           103638.  39.0 -106. 
#> # ℹ 46 more rows

usa::facts
#> # A tibble: 52 × 9
#>   name       population votes admission  income life_exp murder college  heat
#>   <chr>           <dbl> <dbl> <date>      <dbl>    <dbl>  <dbl>   <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Alabama       4887871     9 1819-12-14  49861     75.3    7.8   0.234 65.9 
#> 2 Alaska         737438     3 1959-01-03  74346     78.3    6.4   0.271  0.37
#> 3 Arizona       7171646    11 1912-02-14  59246     79.7    5.1   0.271 73.6 
#> 4 Arkansas      3013825     6 1836-06-15  47062     75.9    7.2   0.214 62.4 
#> 5 California   39557045    55 1850-09-09  75277     81.5    4.4   0.314 38.9 
#> 6 Colorado      5695564     9 1876-08-01  71953     80.3    3.7   0.384 15.5 
#> # ℹ 46 more rows

usa::territory
#> # A tibble: 7 × 6
#>   name                        abb   fips    area   lat   long
#>   <chr>                       <chr> <chr>  <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl>
#> 1 American Samoa              AS    60      76.4 -14.0 -170. 
#> 2 District of Columbia        DC    11      61.1  38.9  -77.0
#> 3 Guam                        GU    66     210.   13.4  145. 
#> 4 Northern Mariana Islands    MP    69     182.   16.8  146. 
#> 5 Puerto Rico                 PR    72    3424.   18.2  -66.4
#> 6 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands UM    74      NA    NA     NA  
#> 7 U.S. Virgin Islands         VI    78     134.   18.1  -64.8

ZIP codes from the archived ‘zipcode’ package are also included

usa::zipcodes
#> # A tibble: 44,336 × 5
#>   zip   city       state   lat  long
#>   <chr> <chr>      <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 00210 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> 2 00211 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> 3 00212 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> 4 00213 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> 5 00214 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> 6 00215 Portsmouth NH     43.0 -71.0
#> # ℹ 44,330 more rows

These synthetic survey respondents from Pew provide a statistically accurate sample of the American people.

dplyr::select(usa::people, 1:8)
#> # A tibble: 20,000 × 8
#>      id fname   lname    gender   age race     edu          div               
#>   <int> <chr>   <chr>    <fct>  <dbl> <fct>    <fct>        <fct>             
#> 1     1 Marquez Minnick  M         25 White    Some college Mountain          
#> 2     2 Sandra  Medina   F         70 Hispanic HS Grad      West South Central
#> 3     3 John    Samples  M         85 White    Less than HS Middle Atlantic   
#> 4     4 David   Mcneely  M         59 White    HS Grad      Mountain          
#> 5     5 Emily   Tsang    F         19 Asian    Some college Pacific           
#> 6     6 Rodney  Matheson M         67 White    HS Grad      West North Central
#> # ℹ 19,994 more rows

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Please note that the ‘usa’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.