[acs-r] 2010 zcta data not available

Ezra Haber Glenn eglenn at mit.edu
Tue Sep 8 16:54:51 EDT 2015


I'm pretty sure the issue is just that the 2010 zcta data is not
avaiable through the API -- sorry!

At Mon, 7 Sep 2015 12:00:56 -0700, arilamstein wrote:
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> I expected 2010 ZCTA data to be available. However, I get an error when I try to access
> it:
> 
> zip_geo = acs::geo.make(zip.code = "*")
> acs::acs.fetch(geography = zip_geo, table.number = "B03002",
> + col.names = "pretty", endyear = 2010, span = 5)
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> 
> 2011 data works fine for me:
> zip_geo = acs::geo.make(zip.code = "*")
> acs::acs.fetch(geography = zip_geo, table.number = "B03002", 
>                            col.names = "pretty", endyear = 2011, span = 5)
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> I am unclear whether this error is because the ZCTA info is simply not available, or
> whether there is an error somewhere else in the code.
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