Select and exclude areas

Source: R/getAreas.R

getAreas and getDistricts are utility functions that builds list of areas or districts by using regular expressions to select and/or exclude areas/districts

getAreas(
  select = NULL,
  exclude = NULL,
  withClustersOnly = FALSE,
  regexpSelect = TRUE,
  regexpExclude = TRUE,
  opts = simOptions(),
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  districts = NULL
)

getDistricts(
  select = NULL,
  exclude = NULL,
  regexpSelect = TRUE,
  regexpExclude = TRUE,
  opts = simOptions(),
  ignore.case = TRUE
)

Arguments

select

Character vector. If regexpSelect is TRUE, this vector is interpreted as a list of regular expressions. Else it is interpreted as a list of area names. If NULL, all areas are selected

exclude

Character vector. If regexpExclude is TRUE, this vector is interpreted as a list of regular expressions and each area validating one of them is excluded. Else it is interpreted as list of area names to exclude. If NULL, not any area is excluded.

withClustersOnly

Should the function return only nodes containing clusters ?

regexpSelect

Is select a list of regular expressions ?

regexpExclude

Is exclude a list of regular expressions ?

opts

list of simulation parameters returned by the function setSimulationPath

ignore.case

Should the case be ignored when evaluating the regular expressions ?

districts

Names of districts. If this argument is not null, only areas belonging to the specified districts are returned.

Value

A character vector containing the name of the areas/districts satisfying the rules defined by the parameters.

See also

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