Read a list of abbreviations of states and territories of the United States
Read the list of abbreviations of states and territories of the United States from the relevant Wikipedia article
readUSstateAbbreviations(url.=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations",
clean=TRUE, Names=c('Name', 'Status', 'ISO', 'ANSI.letters',
'ANSI.digits', 'USPS', 'USCG', 'Old.GPO', 'AP', 'Other') )url. |
Universal resource locator to be read and processed to obtain the desired list |
clean |
logical: If TRUE, clean the data using
|
Names |
names for the columns of the data matrix read; ignored with a warning if the lengths do not match |
Wrapper for readHTMLTable.
NOTE: readHTMLTable(url) returns a list of length 7, only one
of which is the table we want. Moreover, that table contains some
duplicates, which are removed by readUSstateAbbreviations. For
example, 'NB' is an "Obsolete postal code" for Nebraska. If you need
this, please consult the Wikipedia article.
readUSstateAbbreviatons returns a data.frame from the
table in
the
Wikipedia article on "List of U.S. state abbreviations".
Spencer Graves
if(!fda::CRAN()){
abbreviations <- readUSstateAbbreviations()
}Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.