Generate a random factor vector of states.
state(n, x = datasets::state.name,
prob = wakefield::state_populations[["Proportion"]], name = "State")The number elements to generate. This can be globally set within
the environment of r_data_frame or r_list.
A vector of elements to chose from.
A vector of probabilities to chose from.
The name to assign to the output vector's varname
attribute. This is used to auto assign names to the column/vector name when
used inside of r_data_frame or r_list.
Returns a random character vector of state elements.
The state populations and probabilities:
| State | Population | Percent |
| California | 37,253,956 | 12.09 % |
| Texas | 25,145,561 | 8.16 % |
| New York | 19,378,102 | 6.29 % |
| Florida | 18,801,310 | 6.10 % |
| Illinois | 12,830,632 | 4.16 % |
| Pennsylvania | 12,702,379 | 4.12 % |
| Ohio | 11,536,504 | 3.74 % |
| Michigan | 9,883,640 | 3.21 % |
| Georgia | 9,687,653 | 3.14 % |
| North Carolina | 9,535,483 | 3.09 % |
| New Jersey | 8,791,894 | 2.85 % |
| Virginia | 8,001,024 | 2.60 % |
| Washington | 6,724,540 | 2.18 % |
| Massachusetts | 6,547,629 | 2.12 % |
| Indiana | 6,483,802 | 2.10 % |
| Arizona | 6,392,017 | 2.07 % |
| Tennessee | 6,346,105 | 2.06 % |
| Missouri | 5,988,927 | 1.94 % |
| Maryland | 5,773,552 | 1.87 % |
| Wisconsin | 5,686,986 | 1.85 % |
| Minnesota | 5,303,925 | 1.72 % |
| Colorado | 5,029,196 | 1.63 % |
| Alabama | 4,779,736 | 1.55 % |
| South Carolina | 4,625,364 | 1.50 % |
| Louisiana | 4,533,372 | 1.47 % |
| Kentucky | 4,339,367 | 1.41 % |
| Oregon | 3,831,074 | 1.24 % |
| Oklahoma | 3,751,351 | 1.22 % |
| Connecticut | 3,574,097 | 1.16 % |
| Iowa | 3,046,355 | .99 % |
| Mississippi | 2,967,297 | .96 % |
| Arkansas | 2,915,918 | .95 % |
| Kansas | 2,853,118 | .93 % |
| Utah | 2,763,885 | .90 % |
| Nevada | 2,700,551 | .88 % |
| New Mexico | 2,059,179 | .67 % |
| West Virginia | 1,852,994 | .60 % |
| Nebraska | 1,826,341 | .59 % |
| Idaho | 1,567,582 | .51 % |
| Hawaii | 1,360,301 | .44 % |
| Maine | 1,328,361 | .43 % |
| New Hampshire | 1,316,470 | .43 % |
| Rhode Island | 1,052,567 | .34 % |
| Montana | 989,415 | .32 % |
| Delaware | 897,934 | .29 % |
| South Dakota | 814,180 | .26 % |
| Alaska | 710,231 | .23 % |
| North Dakota | 672,591 | .22 % |
| Vermont | 625,741 | .20 % |
| Wyoming | 563,626 | .18 % |
Other variable functions: age,
animal, answer,
area, car,
children, coin,
color, date_stamp,
death, dice,
dna, dob,
dummy, education,
employment, eye,
grade_level, grade,
group, hair,
height, income,
internet_browser, iq,
language, level,
likert, lorem_ipsum,
marital, military,
month, name,
normal, political,
race, religion,
sat, sentence,
sex_inclusive, sex,
smokes, speed,
string, upper,
valid, year,
zip_code
# NOT RUN {
state(10)
pie(table(state(10000)))
sort(100*table(state(n <- 10000))/n)
# }
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