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quickerstats (version 0.0.1)

get_county_data: A flexible function for pulling county-level data.

Description

Automatically builds the specified query and retrieves county-level data.

Usage

get_county_data(
  key,
  year,
  data_item,
  fips = "all",
  domain = "TOTAL",
  source = "CENSUS"
)

Arguments

key

Your NASS API key.

year

Must be a census year (e.g. 2012, 2017).

data_item

The long description of the desired series. Use search_data_items function to find one.

fips

Must be 'all', a 2-digit state fips, or a 5-digit county fips.

domain

A modifier on data_item, some characterstic (e.g. size categories of operations), use 'all' to get all.

source

Must be 'CENSUS' or 'SURVEY'.

Value

A tibble df of the requested data, if any exists. Otherwise returns NULL.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
key <- Sys.getenv('NASS_KEY')
get_county_data(key=key, year=2017,
                data_item='CORN, GRAIN - ACRES HARVESTED', fips='all')
get_county_data(key=key, year=2017,
                data_item='CORN, GRAIN - ACRES HARVESTED', fips='08')
get_county_data(key=key, year=2017,
                data_item='CORN, GRAIN - ACRES HARVESTED', fips='08069',
                domain='all')
# }

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