[acs-r] Problem with ACS package

[Holt, Dennis]

Ezra,
I just restarted R-Studio an reran the commands:
      > nh.pop <- acs.fetch(endyear=year, geo = geo.make(state = 33),
      + table.number = "B01003")
      trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_5yr_2014_var.xml.gz'
      Content type 'application/xml' length 729614 bytes (712 KB)
      downloaded 712 KB

      Error in if (url.test["statusMessage"] != "OK") { :
        missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
      In addition: Warning message:
      In (function (endyear, span = 5, dataset = "acs", keyword, table.name,  :
        XML variable lookup tables for this request
        seem to be missing from ' http://api.census.gov/data/2014/acs5/variables.xml ';
        temporarily downloading and using archived copies instead;
        since this is *much* slower, recommend running
        acs.tables.install()

There was a delay that feels like a time-out.  Could be the MIT directory is not accessible from our location.  Or our State IT may have started blocking it for some unimaginable reason.
Please let me know if there is more I can try.
Dennis



-----Original Message-----
From: Ezra Haber Glenn [mailto:eglenn at mit.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 2:08 PM
To: Holt, Dennis
Cc: acs-r at mit.edu
Subject: Re: Problem with ACS package


Strange -- this seems to be working for me now.  Can you try it one more time, just to be sure?

It's possible that your connection is timing out due to the size of the file being downloaded.

(Also, can you confirm that you are using the most recent version of acs, 2.0?)

--Ezra

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:08:46 -0400, Holt, Dennis wrote:
>
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> [2  <text/html; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] Ezra, I am having
> trouble with the ACS package today.
> There is apparently a dependency with a web link to you files on the
> MIT server which is not working.
> Here is the command I ran and the results:
>
> > year <- 2014
> > nh.pop <- acs.fetch(endyear = year, geo = geo.make(state = 33),
> +                     table.number = "B01003")
> trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_5yr_2014_var.xml.gz'
> Content type 'application/xml' length 729614 bytes (712 KB) downloaded
> 712 KB
>
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> > nh.pop  # for 2013
> Error: object 'nh.pop' not found
>
> Thank you for supporting this package, Dennis
>
> Dennis Holt
> Environmental Public Health Data Analyst Division of Public Health
> Services NH Department of Health and Human Services
> (603) 271-8990  dennis.holt at dhhs.nh.gov<mailto:dennis.holt at dhhs.nh.gov>
>
>

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