[acs-r] reliability of census api

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

It just worked fine for me, so yes, I think it is probably a
temperamental API (or perhaps something related to the consistency of
your internet connection...?).

At Mon, 18 May 2015 10:34:05 -0700, arilamstein wrote:
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> I just tried to run the following query:
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> state_geo = acs::geo.make(state = "*")
> race.data = acs::acs.fetch(geography = state_geo, table.number = "B03002", 
>                            col.names = "pretty", endyear = 2013, span = 5)
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> And got this error message:
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> Error in matrix(unlist(value, recursive = FALSE, use.names = FALSE), nrow = nr,  : 
>   'data' must be of a vector type, was 'NULL'
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> I'm pretty sure that my code is valid: I've run it before. I've noticed that on and off I
> get errors like this. Is this due to the census api being down? 
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> Thanks.
> 
> Ari
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