[acs-r] Which tables are available?

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Just the Detailed Tables -- the others are generally in different
formats, or represent combinations of datasets provided in the
detailed ones.



On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:27:05 -0500, arilamstein wrote:
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> I am not clear whether the acs package is designed to fetch all acs data which the Census
> exposes via the API, or just a subset of it. And if a subset, which subset?
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> For example, this page from the Census Bureau:
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> https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs/acs1.html
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> lists 4 types of tables which are available via the API: Detailed, Comparison Profile,
> Data Profile and Subject Profile. I tried to pull a few Data Profile tables via the acs
> package but kept on getting error messages. 
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> Are only the Detailed tables available via the acs package?
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> Ari
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