[acs-r] 2012 5 year acs is out

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

As long as you are using the current version of the acs.R package
(1.1), the acs.fetch command will actually succeed in fetching the
2012 data, despite this warning message.  Since R is notoriously
silent when completing commands, users may mistake the warning for a
failure, but the data should be there.  That said, I do need to update
the scripts to remove this warning for the next version of the
package.

As for a list of all ACS tables supported by the package, it should be
the same as those available through the census API, as described here:
http://www.census.gov/developers/data/.  In the sidebar on the left,
there are links to describe all table and variables.  (The one
important difference being that the acs.R package does not fetch the
"data profile" tables, since these are pretty different in character
from most of the other available tables -- more like mini-reports,
really.)

Thanks for using the package, and I hope this helps clarify things a
bit.

--Ezra


At Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:26:30 -0800, Anon RUser wrote:
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> The census just released the 2012 5 year ACS: 
> http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/2012_release/
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> But when I tried to use acs.R to get data from it I got this message:
> In acs.fetch(endyear = endyear, span = span, geography = geography[[1]],  :
>   As of the date of this version of the acs package
>   Census API did not provides data for selected endyear
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> Is there an ETA for acs.R supporting this data?  
> 
> Also, I finally found a page listing all the ACS ever done:
> http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/help/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=survey&id=
> survey.en.ACS_ACS
> 
> But when I try to access a lot of this data via the acs.R package I get errors saying that
> it's not available via the census api.  Is there any source listing which subset of this
> data is available via the api?
> 
> Thanks.
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