[acs-r] 2013 5-year available?

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Thanks for your email, and for using the acs.R package.

At present, the package will fetch the 2013 5-year ACS data, with two
important caveats: 

(1) you must specify the table number or variable number directly --
you can't use keywords, since the current version of the package lacks
the correct lookup tables for 2013; and

(2) the acs.fetch function will give you some warnings about how "As
of the date of this version of the acs package Census API did not
provides data for selected endyear" -- but you can safely ignore that.

See below for a basic example:

--Ezra


> acs.fetch(geography=geo.make(state=25, county="*"), table.number="B01003", endyear=2013)
ACS DATA: 
 2009 -- 2013 ;
  Estimates w/90% confidence intervals;
  for different intervals, see confint()
                                 B01003_001   
Barnstable County, Massachusetts 215449 +/- 0 
Berkshire County, Massachusetts  130545 +/- 0 
Bristol County, Massachusetts    549870 +/- 0 
Dukes County, Massachusetts      16739 +/- 0  
Essex County, Massachusetts      750808 +/- 0 
Franklin County, Massachusetts   71408 +/- 0  
Hampden County, Massachusetts    465144 +/- 0 
Hampshire County, Massachusetts  159267 +/- 0 
Middlesex County, Massachusetts  1522533 +/- 0
Nantucket County, Massachusetts  10224 +/- 0  
Norfolk County, Massachusetts    677296 +/- 0 
Plymouth County, Massachusetts   497386 +/- 0 
Suffolk County, Massachusetts    735701 +/- 0 
Worcester County, Massachusetts  802688 +/- 0 
Warning messages:
1: In acs.fetch(geography = geo.make(state = 25, county = "*"), table.number = "B01003",  :
  As of the date of this version of the acs package
  Census API did not provides data for selected endyear
2: In acs.fetch(endyear = endyear, span = span, geography = geography[[1]],  :
  As of the date of this version of the acs package
  Census API did not provides data for selected endyear


At Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:46:28 -0500, BigLakeData LLC wrote:
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> Hello,
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> It seems that the 2013 5-yr ACS is now available on the Census
> API. However, the latest year I can load with this package is 2012.
> 
> I am running the latest version of this package (1.2). Are there
> plans to include access to the 2013 data? Or is there a method to do
> this currently that I have missed?
> 
> Thank you for maintaining this great package!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Matt Schumwinger
> biglakedata.com
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Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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