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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Jonah,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ve used this package a fair amount. I also wrote my own very basic package for using the census api for slightly different use cases. Long story short, whenever possible I’d suggest using the wildcard as Carl
suggests. That results in one api call while if you query each individual tract, you’re making a call for each tract and the data will take considerably longer to pull (with more opportunities for connection errors). The acs package is essentially looping
through each geography, downloading, and binding the results together. <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">After you’ve got all the tracts from the wildcard you can filter the results locally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Michael Williams | Financial Analyst | Community Development | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | 612.204.5572 |
</span><a href="http://www.minneapolisfed.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none">www.minneapolisfed.org</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> acs-r-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:acs-r-bounces@mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ganz, Carl<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 18, 2016 7:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jonah Newman <jnewman@chicagoreporter.com>; acs-r@mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [acs-r] Error message in acs 2.0<o:p></o:p></p>
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">
<a href="mailto:acs-r-bounces@mit.edu">acs-r-bounces@mit.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:acs-r-bounces@mit.edu">mailto:acs-r-bounces@mit.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonah Newman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 18, 2016 2:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:acs-r@mit.edu">acs-r@mit.edu</a><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:
<o:p></o:p></p>
<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") { :
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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>
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<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>
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