[acs-r] Problem with ACS package

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

What's strange is that the package should only be looking to my mit
archive when it can't find the variable metadata at the census website
*and* you don't have a local copy archived.  (The latter would be
there if you'd even run acs.tables.install(), a helper function.)

Can you see whether you are able to access the following, either in R
or just a browser:

   http://api.census.gov/data/2014/acs5/variables.xml

--Ezra

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:15:11 -0400, Holt, Dennis wrote:
> 
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> Ezra,
> I just restarted R-Studio an reran the commands:
> > nh.pop <- acs.fetch(endyear=year, geo = geo.make(state = 33),
> + table.number = "B01003")
> trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_5yr_2014_var.xml.gz'
> Content type 'application/xml' length 729614 bytes (712 KB)
> downloaded 712 KB
>  
> Error in if (url.test["statusMessage"] != "OK") { :
>   missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
> In addition: Warning message:
> In (function (endyear, span = 5, dataset = "acs", keyword, table.name,  :
>   XML variable lookup tables for this request
>   seem to be missing from ' http://api.census.gov/data/2014/acs5/variables.xml ';
>   temporarily downloading and using archived copies instead;
>   since this is *much* slower, recommend running
>   acs.tables.install()
>  
> There was a delay that feels like a time-out.  Could be the MIT directory is not
> accessible from our location.  Or our State IT may have started blocking it for some
> unimaginable reason.
> Please let me know if there is more I can try.
> Dennis
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ezra Haber Glenn [mailto:eglenn at mit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 2:08 PM
> To: Holt, Dennis
> Cc: acs-r at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Problem with ACS package
> 
> Strange -- this seems to be working for me now.  Can you try it one more time, just to be
> sure?
>  
> It's possible that your connection is timing out due to the size of the file being
> downloaded. 
>  
> (Also, can you confirm that you are using the most recent version of acs, 2.0?)
>  
> --Ezra
>  
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:08:46 -0400, Holt, Dennis wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> > [2  <text/html; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] Ezra, I am having
> > trouble with the ACS package today.
> > There is apparently a dependency with a web link to you files on the
> > MIT server which is not working.
> > Here is the command I ran and the results:
> > 
> > > year <- 2014
> > > nh.pop <- acs.fetch(endyear = year, geo = geo.make(state = 33),
> > +                     table.number = "B01003")
> > trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_5yr_2014_var.xml.gz'
> > Content type 'application/xml' length 729614 bytes (712 KB) downloaded
> > 712 KB
> > 
> > Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> > > nh.pop  # for 2013
> > Error: object 'nh.pop' not found
> > 
> > Thank you for supporting this package, Dennis
> > 
> > Dennis Holt
> > Environmental Public Health Data Analyst Division of Public Health
> > Services NH Department of Health and Human Services
> > (603) 271-8990  dennis.holt at dhhs.nh.gov
> >
> >
>  
> --
> Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
> Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-337
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> eglenn at mit.edu
> http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn | http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/
> 617.253.2024 (w)
> 617.721.7131 (c)
> 
> 

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Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-337
Cambridge, MA 02139
eglenn at mit.edu 
http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn | http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/
617.253.2024 (w)
617.721.7131 (c)