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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello Jonah,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I have had similar problems when dealing with geographies with many elements. I am guessing that you generated your geo.set by passing a vector of desired census tracts rather than doing something like,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">geo.set(state=”IL”, county=”Cook”, tract=”*”)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As a result, your geo.set list has 591 geo objects. From my experience, any geo.set list with more than 550 elements will generate the error you mentioned. I have no idea whether this is a design decision, a
bug, or some other issue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">When I had this problem I divided my geo.set into two geo.sets, each with less than 550 elements, fetched results for the two geographies, and then combined the output. Perhaps there is a more elegant workaround.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Carl Ganz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Assistant Statistician<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UCLA Center for Health Policy Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> acs-r-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:acs-r-bounces@mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonah Newman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 18, 2016 2:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> acs-r@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [acs-r] Error message in acs 2.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m new to this listserv, and pretty new to R. I’ve used the acs package once before, on a fairly small set of geographies, and it was great! Now I’m trying it on a larger set, and it’s having some trouble. For reference, I’m using R version
3.2.5, and R Studio version 0.98.1103.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My geo.set has 591 elements (census tracts). I used check=T to make sure they were all good, and they are.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But when I try to use acs.fetch to download data, I’m getting the following error:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:break-all"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#C5060B;background:#E1E2E5">Error in if (url.test["statusMessage"] != "OK") { :
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:break-all"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:#C5060B;background:#E1E2E5"> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black;background:#E1E2E5"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s my code: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#select race by Hispanic Origin data from ACS for selected geographies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">race <- acs.fetch(endyear=2014, span=5, geography = mygeo, table.number="B03002", dataset = "acs")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone help me figure out what’s happening, and why?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jonah<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Jonah Newman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Data & Investigative Reporter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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