[acs-r] Census API down

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

acs.R users:

Please note, due to the shutdown of the federal government, it appears
that many federal website are down as well, including the Census API
(see <http://outage.census.gov/closed.txt>).  As a result, the acs.R
package is currently unable to download data -- sorry!  If you to use
acs.fetch or anything related that requires the API, you will
probably get the following error:

> acs.fetch(geo=geo.make(state=25), table.number="B01003")
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection

I assume that once this all gets sorted out, the site will come right
back as before.

--Ezra
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Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
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