[acs-r] Access to Business Patterns data

[Leo Barlach]

Thanks! The censusapi  package worked.

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:33 PM <arilamstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> 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
>> http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn
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