[acs-r] Accessing 2015 five-year data

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Just to be sure: is it possible you wrote 15 instead of 2015 for the
endyear?  That's what you pasted below...


On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:08:16 -0400, Laviolette, Michael wrote:
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> Hi Ezra,
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> In trying to access the five-year data for 2015, I ran
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> educ.all <- acs.fetch(15, geography = geo.make(state = 33), table.number = "B15001")
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> and got the “no variable lookup tables were available” message.  Going directly to Census
> API seemed to work.
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> api.census.gov/data/2015/acs5?get=NAME,B15001_001E&for=state:33&key=
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> [["NAME","B15001_001E","state"],
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> ["New Hampshire","1052521","33"]]
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> Am I doing something wrong or does the package need updating?
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> Thanks,
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> Mike
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> Michael Laviolette PhD MPH
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