<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Still have the same problem. when I get to the <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">acs.fetch</code> function, it pauses (longer than usual) and then R/Rstudio eventually crashes.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">I’ve tried both <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE)</code> and <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE)</code></p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Not sure if it matters, but this is running on rstudio-server.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">The current <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">sessionInfo()</code></p>
<pre style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin:1.2em 0px"><code class="hljs language-r" style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline;white-space:pre;overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block!important;display:block;overflow-x:auto;padding:0.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(248,248,248)">
&gt; sessionInfo()
R version <span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">3.4</span><span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">.0</span> (<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">2017</span>-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">04</span>-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">21</span>)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">64</span>-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux <span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">7</span> (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">3.4</span>/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">3.4</span>/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>   
 [<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">6</span>] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">11</span>] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>] acs_2.1.1            XML_3.98-<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1.9</span>         stringr_1.2.0        RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">1</span>] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.0   R6_2.2.2         plyr_1.8.4       magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0     
 [<span class="hljs-number" style="color:rgb(0,128,128)">8</span>] yaml_2.1.14      Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5
</code></pre>
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Can you remove RCurl and then try it all?<br>
<br>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:16:45 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:<br>
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<div><div class="h5">&gt; I’ve seen the post in August that had a similar title, but the fix there (from 2.1.0 to<br>
&gt; 2.1.1) did not seem to fix the problem I’m having with the acs.fetch function.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The follow lines of code hang up and crash R using the latest 2.1.1 of the acs package<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; arlington &lt;- geo.make(state = &quot;VA&quot;, county = &quot;Arlington&quot;, tract = &quot;*&quot;, block.group = &quot;*&quot;)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Population_Total &lt;- acs.fetch(geo=arlington, endyear = 2015,  table.number=&quot;B01003&quot;)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I’ve re-installed the api.key, and also ran acs.tables.install()<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The fix was to downgrade the package to v2.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; devtools::install_version(&quot;<wbr>acs&quot;, version = &quot;2.0&quot;, repos = &quot;<a href="http://cran.us.r-project.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cran.us.r-project.org</a>&quot;<wbr>)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; then the above code works within seconds.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; here’s the session info with v2.1.1<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; sessionInfo()<br>
&gt; R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)<br>
&gt; Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)<br>
&gt; Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Matrix products: default<br>
&gt; BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/<wbr>lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so<br>
&gt; LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/<wbr>lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; locale:<br>
&gt;  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C<br>
&gt;  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8<br>
&gt;  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8<br>
&gt;  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C<br>
&gt;  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C<br>
&gt; [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; attached base packages:<br>
&gt; [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; other attached packages:<br>
&gt; [1] acs_2.1.1            XML_3.98-1.9         stringr_1.2.0<br>
&gt; [4] RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; loaded via a namespace (and not attached):<br>
&gt;  [1] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.0   R6_2.2.2         plyr_1.8.4<br>
&gt;  [5] magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0      yaml_2.1.14<br>
&gt;  [9] Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; here’s the session info with 2.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; sessionInfo()<br>
&gt; R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)<br>
&gt; Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)<br>
&gt; Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Matrix products: default<br>
&gt; BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/<wbr>lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so<br>
&gt; LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/<wbr>lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; locale:<br>
&gt;  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C<br>
&gt;  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8<br>
&gt;  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8<br>
&gt;  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C<br>
&gt;  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C<br>
&gt; [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; attached base packages:<br>
&gt; [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; other attached packages:<br>
&gt; [1] acs_2.0              plyr_1.8.4           XML_3.98-1.9<br>
&gt; [4] stringr_1.2.0        RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; loaded via a namespace (and not attached):<br>
&gt;  [1] Rcpp_0.12.12     digest_0.6.12    withr_1.0.2      bitops_1.0-6<br>
&gt;  [5] R6_2.2.2         magrittr_1.5     httr_1.3.1       stringi_1.1.5<br>
&gt;  [9] curl_2.8.1       devtools_1.13.2  RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0<br>
&gt; [13] RCurl_1.95-4.8   yaml_2.1.14      compiler_3.4.0   memoise_1.1.0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ​<br>
&gt;<br>
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--<br>
Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP<br>
Department of Urban Studies and Planning<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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