[acs-r] ACS 1-year 2012 data added to API

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

As I understand it, the only 2012 1-year data available through the
API is the "Data Profiles," which are different in character from the
other census tables -- they look like this:
<http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_5YR_DP02&prodType=table>.
The acs package doesn't currently download them, although I could
modify it to do so -- do you think those are often used by people
working in R?

At Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:11:17 -0400, Brian Bowling wrote:
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> The Census Bureau announced today that the 2012 1-year data is available through the API. I’ve been
> trying to fetch the DP02 table using the acs package without any luck.
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> For example, this code produces the following error message:
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> dp02 <- acs.fetch(state='PA', table.number="DP02", endyear=2012)
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> In acs.fetch(state = "PA", table.number = "DP02", endyear = 2012) :
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>   As of the date of this version of the acs package
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>   Census API did not provides data for selected endyear
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> Does this mean the package has to be updated before it can fetch the 2012 data or am I using the wrong
> variables for the fetch?
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> Regards,
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> Brian Bowling
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