Easily rename ACS variables — select_variables_by

Given the name of an ACS variable (or a string that matches one or more such variables), generate a named character vector of original variable names and more meaningful names.

Usage

select_variables_by_name(variable_name, census_codebook)

Arguments

variable_name: A named vector (intended for use with named ACS variables).
census_codebook: An object returned from tidycensus::load_variables().

Value

A named character vector containing the variables that matched variable_name from the census_codebook, with semantically-meaningful names derived from metadata fields contained in census_codebook.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
codebook = tidycensus::load_variables(dataset = "acs5", year = 2022)
select_variables_by_name("B16005_", census_codebook = codebook)
} # }