<div dir="ltr">Similar to a prior thread, appears that 5-year ACS data is missing from the "acs" package (2.1.3). To replicate:<div><br></div><div>```</div><div>key <- {KEY}</div><div>place_name <- "Los Angeles city"</div><div>state <- "CA"</div><div>year <- 2013</div><div>geo <- acs::geo.make(state = c(state), place = place_name)<br></div><div><div>acs::acs.fetch(endyear = year, span = 5, geography = geo,</div><div> table.number = "B23025", col.names = "pretty",</div><div> key = key)</div></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>which results in:</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div>Error: XML content does not seem to be XML: ''<br></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>Other years and span seems to work. This problem can be replicated across various tables.</div><div><br></div><div>Attempted to try `acs.tables.install()` which generated a lot of activity, but rerunning the code did not work.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not quite sure how these queries are assembled, but checked the ACS API which seemed to return valid data, e.g., <a href="https://api.census.gov/data/2013/acs/acs5?get=B23025_001E&for=place:*">https://api.census.gov/data/2013/acs/acs5?get=B23025_001E&for=place:*</a> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><p dir="ltr"><br>
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