[acs-r] Access to Business Patterns data

Fri Nov 2 14:33:41 EDT 2018

Leo,

You might be interested in the censusapi package:
https://github.com/hrecht/censusapi

It is designed to fetch all data from the Census API into R.

Ari

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> Thanks for your email.  Although those datasets are available through
> the Census API, they are not in the same format (and can't really be
> treated in the same ways) as the ACS data, and so the acs package
> can't fetch them.
>
> Sorry!
>
> On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:38:41 -0400, Leo Barlach wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My team has been using acs for a while to download Census data, but now
> we need to
> > download business pattern data, ideally the zip code business patters:
> >
> https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/cbp-nonemp-zbp/zbp-api.html
> >
> > The package doesn't seem to find it. Is this data not available through
> the package?
> >
> > """
> > acs::api.key.install(key = census_key)
> > acs::acs.tables.install()
> > geo_set <- acs::geo.make(zip.code = '*')
> > lookup <- acs::acs.lookup(endyear = 2016, keyword = 'ZBP',
> case.sensitive = F)
> > """
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Leo Barlach
> >
> >
>
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