[acs-r] Difficulty with worked example on blog

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

One other thing to check: can you confirm that you are using the most
recent version of the acs.R package -- currently version 1.0, which is
now available directly from CRAN?  (See
http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/06/now-on-cran-acs-r-version-1-0/
for more info.).

--Ezra

At Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:49:41 -0400, Ezra Haber Glenn wrote:
> 
> 
> Peter:
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying -- this is a new list and I think the
> moderation settings were messed up.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this seems to be a problem with your API key.
> Can you check your key again, run a fresh:
> 
> > api.key.install(key="YOURKEYHERE")
> 
> and let me know if it works?
> 
> When I try it, I get the following:
> 
> =================
> 
> > my.tract=geo.make(state="MA", county="Middlesex",  tract=387201, block.group="*", check=T)
> Testing geography item 1: Tract 387201, Blockgroup *, Middlesex County, Massachusetts .... OK.
> > total.pop=acs.fetch(geo=my.tract, table.number="B01003")
> 
> total.pop=acs.fetch(geo=my.tract, table.number="B01003")
> > total.pop
> ACS DATA: 
>  2007 -- 2011 ;
>   Estimates w/90% confidence intervals;
>   for different intervals, see confint()
>                                                                      B01003_001  
> Block Group 1, Census Tract 3872.01, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 2681 +/- 319
> Block Group 2, Census Tract 3872.01, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 952 +/- 213 
> Block Group 3, Census Tract 3872.01, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1010 +/- 156
> Block Group 4, Census Tract 3872.01, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 938 +/- 214 
> > 
> 
> ==================
> 
> On Sat Jun 1 13:45:21 EDT 2013 Peter Cowan cowan.pd at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to work the example at:
> > 
> > http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/03/acs-r-a-worked-example-using-blockgroup-level-data/
> >
> > There appears to be a problem with the acs.fetch function for me. I have
> > previously saved an API key file.
> >
> > > my.tract=geo.make(state="MA", county="Middlesex",
> > +   tract=387201, block.group="*", check=T)
> > Testing geography item 1: Tract 387201, Blockgroup *, Middlesex County,
> > Massachusetts .... Error in seq.default(1, (length(in.data) - geo.length),
> > 2) :
> >   wrong sign in 'by' argument
> > > my.tract=geo.make(state="MA", county="Middlesex",
> > +   tract=387201, block.group="*")
> > > total.pop=acs.fetch(geo=my.tract, table.number="B01003")
> > Error in seq.default(1, (length(in.data) - geo.length), 2) :
> >   wrong sign in 'by' argument
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
> > Peter
> --
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Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-337
Cambridge, MA 02139
eglenn at mit.edu 
http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn | http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/
617.253.2024 (w)
617.721.7131 (c)