[acs-r] acs.fetch hangs in v2.1 vs 2.0

Carl Ganz carlganz at gmail.com
Wed Sep 20 13:31:32 EDT 2017


FWIW the default CRAN repository on Microsoft-R is not kept up-to-date like
the regular CRAN repositories so it is possible the issue is related to
that. Try reinstalling everything with repos="https://cran.rstudio.com" or
whichever is your favorite repository.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Chen <chend at vt.edu> wrote:

> I may have narrowed the issue to be related to microsoft-r-open.
> Will do a bit more testing to confirm.
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Chen <chend at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> Still have the same problem. when I get to the acs.fetch function, it
>> pauses (longer than usual) and then R/Rstudio eventually crashes.
>>
>> I’ve tried both options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE) and options(tigris_use_cache
>> = TRUE)
>>
>> Not sure if it matters, but this is running on rstudio-server.
>>
>> The current sessionInfo()
>>
>>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
>>
>> Matrix products: default
>> BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
>> LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
>>
>> locale:
>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
>>  [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] acs_2.1.1            XML_3.98-1.9         stringr_1.2.0        RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>  [1] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.0   R6_2.2.2         plyr_1.8.4       magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0
>>  [8] yaml_2.1.14      Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5
>>
>>>>
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can you remove RCurl and then try it all?
>>>
>>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:16:45 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:
>>> >
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>>> > I’ve seen the post in August that had a similar title, but the fix
>>> there (from 2.1.0 to
>>> > 2.1.1) did not seem to fix the problem I’m having with the acs.fetch
>>> function.
>>> >
>>> > The follow lines of code hang up and crash R using the latest 2.1.1 of
>>> the acs package
>>> >
>>> > arlington <- geo.make(state = "VA", county = "Arlington", tract = "*",
>>> block.group = "*")
>>> >
>>> > Population_Total <- acs.fetch(geo=arlington, endyear = 2015,
>>> table.number="B01003")
>>> >
>>> > I’ve re-installed the api.key, and also ran acs.tables.install()
>>> >
>>> > The fix was to downgrade the package to v2.0
>>> >
>>> > devtools::install_version("acs", version = "2.0", repos = "
>>> http://cran.us.r-project.org")
>>> >
>>> > then the above code works within seconds.
>>> >
>>> > here’s the session info with v2.1.1
>>> >
>>> > > sessionInfo()
>>> > R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>>> > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> > Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
>>> >
>>> > Matrix products: default
>>> > BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
>>> > LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
>>> >
>>> > locale:
>>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>> >
>>> > attached base packages:
>>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> >
>>> > other attached packages:
>>> > [1] acs_2.1.1            XML_3.98-1.9         stringr_1.2.0
>>> > [4] RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0
>>> >
>>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> >  [1] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.0   R6_2.2.2         plyr_1.8.4
>>> >  [5] magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0      yaml_2.1.14
>>> >  [9] Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5
>>> >
>>> > here’s the session info with 2.0
>>> >
>>> > > sessionInfo()
>>> > R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>>> > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> > Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
>>> >
>>> > Matrix products: default
>>> > BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
>>> > LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
>>> >
>>> > locale:
>>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>> >
>>> > attached base packages:
>>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> >
>>> > other attached packages:
>>> > [1] acs_2.0              plyr_1.8.4           XML_3.98-1.9
>>> > [4] stringr_1.2.0        RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0
>>> >
>>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> >  [1] Rcpp_0.12.12     digest_0.6.12    withr_1.0.2      bitops_1.0-6
>>> >  [5] R6_2.2.2         magrittr_1.5     httr_1.3.1       stringi_1.1.5
>>> >  [9] curl_2.8.1       devtools_1.13.2  RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0
>>> > [13] RCurl_1.95-4.8   yaml_2.1.14      compiler_3.4.0   memoise_1.1.0
>>> >
>>> > ​
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> --
>>> Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
>>> Department of Urban Studies and Planning
>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>> 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-346
>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>>> eglenn at mit.edu
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>>>
>>
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