Get state abbreviations from FIPS codes

Source: R/utils.R

Look up state abbreviations by FIPS codes (including District of Columbia and Puerto Rico). Will match the first two digits of the input codes, so should work for 5-digit county codes, or even longer tract and census block FIPS codes.

fips_to_abbr(code)

Arguments

code

Vector of FIPS codes to look up; will match the first two digits of the code. Note that these are treated as strings; the number 1 will not match "01".

Value

A vector of state abbreviations.

See also

abbr_to_fips()

Examples

fips_to_abbr("42000")
#>   42 
#> "PA" 
fips_to_abbr(c("42", "72", "11"))
#>   42   72   11 
#> "PA" "PR" "DC"