Closed aeonstone closed 6 years ago
Thanks for reporting this. What version of R are you using and what computer system? (If others are reading this issue, please see if you get the same error.)
I assume something has changed in the underlying JSON that the censusapi
package is reading. I'll add a bug fix in to the next version. In the meantime, the same information can be browsed in the HTML version of the variable list at https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs/acs5/variables.html
Thanks @hrecht for the quick reply. I am currently running R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) through Version 1.1.456 of of RStudio. And thanks for the tip on where to get the variable names.
Hey @hrecht I'm having a similar issue - R 3.5.0 on Windows
Thanks all for the bug report, this has been fixed in version 0.4.1 with https://github.com/hrecht/censusapi/commit/a4b1e0b912818e8edb304ea6afb42fafec7019b6. The bug was caused by the Census Bureau renaming a metadata attribute that was used by the ACS and a few other endpoints.
You can install the new version now directly from github:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("hrecht/censusapi")
v0.4.1 will also be submitted to CRAN in the near future.
I'm having an issue using the
listlistCensusMetadata
command when trying to access ACS data tables. The command works fine when using SAHIE or SAIPE data sets. I get the same error regardless of ACS1 or ACS5 and regardless of what vintage use (e.g. 2012 or 2015). Also I have the most current version of censusapi.