[acs-r] 2016 1-year data - unable to acquire

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Actually, I believe that the 1-year 2016 data has been released, but
the package is not finding it.  (They changed some stuff in the
variable lookup tables without telling me; I've been trouble shooting
over the weekend and am mostly done with a patch.)

The 2016/5-year data is not available yet -- scheduled to be released
in Dec.

--Ezra

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:31:56 -0400, Mark White wrote:
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> Sara,
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> The 1-year estimates have not been released by the Census Bureau yet. 
> 
> Best,
> Mark
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> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:01 PM Sara Hintze <shintze at marc.org> wrote:
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>     Hi there,
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>     I am trying to use the R ACS package to retrieve the 2016 1-year estimates. The
>     following call works for previous end-years, but not for 2016.
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>     sex.by.age = acs.lookup(table.number="B01001", span=1, endyear=2016)
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>     This is the R output from this call:
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>     trying URL 'http://web.mit.edu/eglenn/www/acs/acs-variables/acs_1yr_2016_var.xml.gz'
>    
>     Content type 'application/xml' length 3976355 bytes (3.8 MB)
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>     downloaded 3.8 MB
> 
>     Warning messages:
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>     1: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :
>    
>       XML variable lookup tables for this request
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>       seem to be missing from ' https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs1/variables.xml ';
>    
>       temporarily downloading and using archived copies instead;
>    
>       since this is *much* slower, recommend running
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>       acs.tables.install()
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>     2: In acs.lookup(table.number = "B01001", span = 1, endyear = 2016) :
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>       Sorry, no tables/keyword meets your search.
>    
>       Suggestions:
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>         try with 'case.sensitive=F',
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>         remove search terms,
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>         change 'keyword' to 'table.name' in search (or vice-versa)
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>     Note: I have run acs.tables.install(), and still get the same output.
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>     Is there something I am doing incorrectly? I have several scripts that work when accessing 1-year data from 2012 to 2015, but will not work with the 2016 data.
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>     Thank you for your time.
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>     Sara
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