[acs-r] ACS 1-year 2012 data added to API

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Quoting Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at MIT.EDU>:

>
> As I understand it, the only 2012 1-year data available through the
> API is the "Data Profiles," which are different in character from the
> other census tables -- they look like this:
> <http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_5YR_DP02&prodType=table>.
> The acs package doesn't currently download them, although I could
> modify it to do so -- do you think those are often used by people
> working in R?

The data journalists I hang out with generally camp out on the Census  
(and other government data sites) and grab data as soon as it's  
posted. Most of them work with Excel and perhaps an RDBMS - the name  
of the game is getting the story right and fast, which precludes  
learning a new programming language with some rather obscure  
programming paradigms. ;-)

So I'd say poll the acs.R community, but I wouldn't rush to code  
something for general Census users.

Here's a sample Census story - data was released yesterday or today!

http://t.co/XWciqOfGS0

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> At Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:11:17 -0400, Brian Bowling wrote:
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>> The Census Bureau announced today that the 2012 1-year data is   
>> available through the API. I?ve been
>> trying to fetch the DP02 table using the acs package without any luck.
>>
>> For example, this code produces the following error message:
>>
>> dp02 <- acs.fetch(state='PA', table.number="DP02", endyear=2012)
>>
>> In acs.fetch(state = "PA", table.number = "DP02", endyear = 2012) :
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>>   As of the date of this version of the acs package
>>
>>   Census API did not provides data for selected endyear
>>
>> Does this mean the package has to be updated before it can fetch   
>> the 2012 data or am I using the wrong
>> variables for the fetch?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brian Bowling
>>
>> Reporter
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