[acs-r] 2010 zcta data not available

arilamstein@gmail.com arilamstein at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 17:04:07 EDT 2015


Thanks Ezra. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> 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)
> >
> > 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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