[acs-r] Issue with 2012-2016 ACS data retrieval

[Sara Hintze]

Hi there,

I am attempting to acquire the 2012-2016 ACS data and the scripts I've created to download previous ACS datasets are not working. I ran these against the 2016, 1-year data back in September, and they worked fine. However, now they error out on both the 1-year and 5-year 2016 datasets. On a simple lookup, I get the following:

acs.lookup(table.number="B01001", span=5, endyear=2016)
Error in data.frame(variable.code = names, table.number = table.numbers,  :
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 13, 25

However, if I include the keyword attribute as follows, it works just fine:

acs.lookup(endyear=2016, span=5, table.number="B01001", keyword="Female")
An object of class "acs.lookup"
endyear= 2016  ; span= 5

results:
   variable.code table.number table.name                         variable.name
1     B01001_026       B01001 SEX BY AGE                 Estimate Total Female
2     B01001_030       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 15 to 17 years
3     B01001_034       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 22 to 24 years
4     B01001_038       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 40 to 44 years
5     B01001_042       B01001 SEX BY AGE Estimate Total Female 60 and 61 years
6     B01001_046       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 70 to 74 years
7     B01001_026       B01001 SEX BY AGE                 Estimate Total Female
8     B01001_030       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 15 to 17 years
9     B01001_034       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 22 to 24 years
10    B01001_038       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 40 to 44 years
11    B01001_042       B01001 SEX BY AGE Estimate Total Female 60 and 61 years
12    B01001_046       B01001 SEX BY AGE  Estimate Total Female 70 to 74 years

Also, changing the endyear attribute to 2015, for example, works just fine. Any thoughts on what may be going on?

Thanks,
Sara

Sara Hintze
GIS Data Developer/Analyst | Research Services
Mid-America Regional Council
600 Broadway Blvd., Ste 200
Kansas City, MO 64105
816-701-8220 | www.marc.org

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