[acs-r] Error message accessing table GCT0103

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

The API (and thus, the acs.R package) do not support the "GCT" tables
-- but this same data should be available through table B01002
(<http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/help/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=table&id=table.en.ACS_11_5YR_B01002#>).  

(And as an aside, even if the API did support the GCT tables, the
format for them isn't as friendly, since the include in them a sort of
"hard coding" for the geography, whereas the acs package allows you to
"mix and match" tables and geographies.)

Hope that helps.

--Ezra

At Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:43:43 -0800, Anon RUser wrote:
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> Table.number "GCT0103" is a valid table in the 2011 5 year ACS as listed here
> http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/help/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=dataset&id=
> dataset.en.ACS_11_5YR#
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> But when I try to access it with either all state or all county geographies it causes what
> appears to be an internal acs.R error message:
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> > us.state = geo.make(state = "*");
> > acs.fetch(geography=us.state, table.number = "GCT0103")
> Error in seq.default(1, length(names), 2) : wrong sign in 'by' argument
> 
>  us.county = geo.make(state = "*", county = "*");
> > acs.fetch(geography=us.county, table.number = "GCT0103")
> Error in seq.default(1, length(names), 2) : wrong sign in 'by' argument
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