[acs-r] Access to Business Patterns data

[Ezra Haber Glenn]

Thanks for your email.  Although those datasets are available through
the Census API, they are not in the same format (and can't really be
treated in the same ways) as the ACS data, and so the acs package
can't fetch them.

Sorry!

On Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:38:41 -0400, Leo Barlach wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My team has been using acs for a while to download Census data, but now we need to
> download business pattern data, ideally the zip code business patters: 
> https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/cbp-nonemp-zbp/zbp-api.html
> 
> The package doesn't seem to find it. Is this data not available through the package?
> 
> """
> acs::api.key.install(key = census_key)
> acs::acs.tables.install()
> geo_set <- acs::geo.make(zip.code = '*')
> lookup <- acs::acs.lookup(endyear = 2016, keyword = 'ZBP', case.sensitive = F)
> """
> 
> Thanks!
> Leo Barlach
> 
> 

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