[acs-r] 2016 1-year data - unable to acquire

[Sara Hintze]

Hi there,

I am trying to use the R ACS package to retrieve the 2016 1-year estimates. The following call works for previous end-years, but not for 2016.

sex.by.age = acs.lookup(table.number="B01001", span=1, endyear=2016)

This is the R output from this call:

trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_1yr_2016_var.xml.gz'
Content type 'application/xml' length 3976355 bytes (3.8 MB)
downloaded 3.8 MB

Warning messages:
1: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :
  XML variable lookup tables for this request
  seem to be missing from ' https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs1/variables.xml ';
  temporarily downloading and using archived copies instead;
  since this is *much* slower, recommend running
  acs.tables.install()
2: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :
  Sorry, no tables/keyword meets your search.
  Suggestions:
    try with 'case.sensitive=F',
    remove search terms,
    change 'keyword' to 'table.name' in search (or vice-versa)


Note: I have run acs.tables.install(), and still get the same output.



Is there something I am doing incorrectly? I have several scripts that work when accessing 1-year data from 2012 to 2015, but will not work with the 2016 data.



Thank you for your time.



Sara

Sara Hintze
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