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+% Generated by roxygen2 (4.1.0): do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/readNWISdata.r
+\name{stateCdLookup}
+\alias{stateCdLookup}
+\title{State code look up}
+\usage{
+stateCdLookup(input, outputType = "postal")
+}
+\arguments{
+\item{input}{could be character (full name, abbreviation, id), or numeric (id)}
+
+\item{outputType}{character can be "postal","fullName","tableIndex", or "id".}
+}
+\description{
+Function to simplify finding state and state code definitions. Used in \code{readNWISdata}
+and \code{readWQPdata}.
+}
+\examples{
+fullName <- stateCdLookup("wi", "fullName")
+abbriev <- stateCdLookup("Wisconsin", "postal")
+id <- stateCdLookup("WI", "id")
+name <- stateCdLookup(55, "fullName")
+index <- stateCdLookup("WI", "tableIndex")
+stateCd[index,]
+}
+