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

[Mark White]

Sara,

The 1-year estimates have not been released by the Census Bureau yet.

Best,
Mark

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:01 PM Sara Hintze <shintze at marc.org> wrote:

> 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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