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Calculates the Population of Counties Given a Vector of Counties and States

Calc_Counties_Pop.Rd

This is a helper function for the DSPGrocery::Auto_Rural_Pop function which calculates the total population of counties within states given a data frame containing a vector of county names and state names.

Usage

Calc_Counties_Pop(states_unique, df_buffer_loc)

Arguments

states_unique

this is a vector of unique state FIPS codes inherited from the df_buffer_loc parameter in DSPGrocery::Auto_Rural_Pop.

df_buffer_loc

this is a data frame inherited from DSPGrocery::Auto_Rural_Pop.

Value

the function returns a data frame called all_counties_pops containing county, county population, and sf geographies. The data frame is returned with an attribute called "all_population" which is the sum of county populations.

Details

The call uses data pulled from the United States Census Bureau with a call to the tidycensus API, tidycensus::get_decennial.

See also

Calc_Cities_Pop()

Author

Harun Celik