[acs-r] Census API down

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Quoting Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu>:

>
> acs.R users:
>
> Please note, due to the shutdown of the federal government, it appears
> that many federal website are down as well, including the Census API
> (see <http://outage.census.gov/closed.txt>).  As a result, the acs.R
> package is currently unable to download data -- sorry!  If you to use
> acs.fetch or anything related that requires the API, you will
> probably get the following error:
>
>> acs.fetch(geo=geo.make(state=25), table.number="B01003")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
>
> I assume that once this all gets sorted out, the site will come right
> back as before.
>
> --Ezra
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They caught me in the middle of a project, sadly. My code is working  
but I can't continue with actual use cases until the site comes back  
up. Meanwhile, I have managed to get CSV dumps of the XML table  
definitions up on Github for browsing:

https://github.com/znmeb/pdxcensusdata/blob/master/sf1-cheat-sheet.csv
https://github.com/znmeb/pdxcensusdata/blob/master/acs-cheat-sheet-2011.csv
https://github.com/znmeb/pdxcensusdata/blob/master/acs-cheat-sheet-2010.csv

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