[acs-r] census API down

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Update: the API seems to be back up.  Sorry for the outage, and fetch
away!

At Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:55:22 -0400, Ezra Haber Glenn wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear acs users:
> 
> Just a quick warning: for some reason, the census API seems to be down
> today, so you may be getting errors when you try to fetch data.  They
> look like this:
> 
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> No data found at:
>   http://api.census.gov/data/2014/acs5?... [with lots more stuff here]
> 
> The error has nothing to do with the acs package or R, but is a
> census-side problem.  To my knowledge, the API has been pretty
> reliable, so let's hope it's back up soon.  Sorry for any problems.
> 
> --Ezra
> 
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Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-337
Cambridge, MA 02139
eglenn at mit.edu 
http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn | http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/
617.253.2024 (w)
617.721.7131 (c)