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

[Mark White]

Oops sorry, I got it backwards!

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:54 AM Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Actually, I believe that the 1-year 2016 data has been released, but
> the package is not finding it.  (They changed some stuff in the
> variable lookup tables without telling me; I've been trouble shooting
> over the weekend and am mostly done with a patch.)
>
> The 2016/5-year data is not available yet -- scheduled to be released
> in Dec.
>
> --Ezra
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:31:56 -0400, Mark White wrote:
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> > 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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