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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi there,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to use the R ACS package to retrieve the 2016 1-year estimates. The following call works for previous end-years, but not for 2016.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">sex.by.age = acs.lookup(table.number="B01001", span=1, endyear=2016)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>This is the R output from this call:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_1yr_2016_var.xml.gz'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Content type 'application/xml' length 3976355 bytes (3.8 MB)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">downloaded 3.8 MB<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Warning messages:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">1: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> XML variable lookup tables for this request<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> seem to be missing from ' https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs1/variables.xml ';<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> temporarily downloading and using archived copies instead;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> since this is *much* slower, recommend running<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> acs.tables.install()<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">2: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> Sorry, no tables/keyword meets your search.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> Suggestions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> try with 'case.sensitive=F',<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> remove search terms,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"> change 'keyword' to 'table.name' in search (or vice-versa)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Note: I have run <span style="color:#007020">acs.tables.install</span><span style="color:black">(), and still get the same output.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Is there something I am doing incorrectly? I have several scripts that work when accessing 1-year data from 2012 to 2015, but will not work with the 2016 data.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for your time.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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