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

Daniel Chen chend at vt.edu
Wed Sep 20 13:25:13 EDT 2017 

I may have narrowed the issue to be related to microsoft-r-open.
Will do a bit more testing to confirm.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Chen <chend at vt.edu> wrote:

> Still have the same problem. when I get to the acs.fetch function, it
> pauses (longer than usual) and then R/Rstudio eventually crashes.
>
> I’ve tried both options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE) and options(tigris_use_cache
> = TRUE)
>
> Not sure if it matters, but this is running on rstudio-server.
>
> The current sessionInfo()
>
>
> > 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               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
>  [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  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        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       magrittr_1.5     RevoUtils_10.0.4 tools_3.4.0
>  [8] yaml_2.1.14      Rcpp_0.12.12     stringi_1.1.5
>
> ​
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Ezra Haber Glenn <eglenn at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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