[acs-r] acs.fetch hangs in v2.1 vs 2.0

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Can you remove RCurl and then try it all?

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:16:45 -0400, Daniel Chen wrote:
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> I’ve seen the post in August that had a similar title, but the fix there (from 2.1.0 to
> 2.1.1) did not seem to fix the problem I’m having with the acs.fetch function.
> 
> The follow lines of code hang up and crash R using the latest 2.1.1 of the acs package
> 
> arlington <- geo.make(state = "VA", county = "Arlington", tract = "*", block.group = "*")
> 
> Population_Total <- acs.fetch(geo=arlington, endyear = 2015,  table.number="B01003")
> 
> I’ve re-installed the api.key, and also ran acs.tables.install()
> 
> The fix was to downgrade the package to v2.0
> 
> devtools::install_version("acs", version = "2.0", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")
> 
> then the above code works within seconds.
> 
> here’s the session info with v2.1.1
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
> LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] acs_2.1.1            XML_3.98-1.9         stringr_1.2.0       
> [4] RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.0   R6_2.2.2         plyr_1.8.4      
>  [5] magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0      yaml_2.1.14     
>  [9] Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5
> 
> here’s the session info with 2.0
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
> LAPACK: /usr/lib64/microsoft-r/3.4/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] acs_2.0              plyr_1.8.4           XML_3.98-1.9        
> [4] stringr_1.2.0        RevoUtilsMath_10.0.0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.12     digest_0.6.12    withr_1.0.2      bitops_1.0-6    
>  [5] R6_2.2.2         magrittr_1.5     httr_1.3.1       stringi_1.1.5   
>  [9] curl_2.8.1       devtools_1.13.2  RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0     
> [13] RCurl_1.95-4.8   yaml_2.1.14      compiler_3.4.0   memoise_1.1.0
> 
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