Error: Columns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … (and 2 more) must be named.

[abuabara]

I had some pieces of code that were pulling ACS 5Y Census data pretty well. Suddenly (starting yesterday), the codes have not worked anymore. At first I thought it was due to some package update (slang, tibble, etc.). But probably no, because I tested on machines that were off for a while and I get the same messages. I suspect it may be due to government shutdown, but I'm not sure either. Using the ACS package I have been able to download data. Any thoughts on that? Thanks a lot in advance!

PS. interestingly the tigris package is working well. I do not know if due to caches in my machine.

> data_BG <- get_acs(geography="block group",
+                    county="007",
+                    variables="B01001_002",
+                    geometry=T,
+                    state="48",
+                    year=2016)
Getting data from the 2012-2016 5-year ACS
Error: Columns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … (and 2 more) must be named.
Use .name_repair to specify repair.
Call `rlang::last_error()` to see a backtrace

[mfherman]

This looks like an error introduced with the new release of tibble that is addressed in #130. Try updating to the development version of tidycensus and this should be fixed:

devtools::install_github("walkerke/tidycensus")

[abuabara]

Thanks for the answer. I've tried this, but it still does not work. It must be something else.

[mfherman]

Hmm, I can't reproduce your error on my machine. Here is a reprex with the working code as well as my session info. Do you see package versions that differ between our configurations?

library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "block group",
  county = "007",
  variables = "B01001_002",
  geometry = TRUE,
  state = "48",
  year = 2016
)
#> Getting data from the 2012-2016 5-year ACS
#> Simple feature collection with 19 features and 5 fields (with 1 geometry empty)
#> geometry type:  MULTIPOLYGON
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: -97.26082 ymin: 27.83954 xmax: -96.79053 ymax: 28.31923
#> epsg (SRID):    4269
#> proj4string:    +proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +no_defs
#> First 10 features:
#>           GEOID                                                    NAME
#> 1  480079501001 Block Group 1, Census Tract 9501, Aransas County, Texas
#> 2  480079501002 Block Group 2, Census Tract 9501, Aransas County, Texas
#> 3  480079501003 Block Group 3, Census Tract 9501, Aransas County, Texas
#> 4  480079501004 Block Group 4, Census Tract 9501, Aransas County, Texas
#> 5  480079501005 Block Group 5, Census Tract 9501, Aransas County, Texas
#> 6  480079502001 Block Group 1, Census Tract 9502, Aransas County, Texas
#> 7  480079502002 Block Group 2, Census Tract 9502, Aransas County, Texas
#> 8  480079503001 Block Group 1, Census Tract 9503, Aransas County, Texas
#> 9  480079503002 Block Group 2, Census Tract 9503, Aransas County, Texas
#> 10 480079503003 Block Group 3, Census Tract 9503, Aransas County, Texas
#>      variable estimate moe                       geometry
#> 1  B01001_002      613 202 MULTIPOLYGON (((-96.8229 28...
#> 2  B01001_002      926 304 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.11207 2...
#> 3  B01001_002      763 230 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.00868 2...
#> 4  B01001_002       97  68 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.0415 28...
#> 5  B01001_002      179  77 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.04129 2...
#> 6  B01001_002      202  55 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.0341 28...
#> 7  B01001_002      417 148 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.05207 2...
#> 8  B01001_002     1443 328 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.07184 2...
#> 9  B01001_002      873 302 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.05889 2...
#> 10 B01001_002      673 231 MULTIPOLYGON (((-97.08877 2...

^{Created on 2019-01-08 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

Session info

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[abuabara]

THANK YOU! worked after updating my packages to dev versions (just followed yours). Not sure which one is making the difference ... just the tidycensus was not enough. Thanks again! ;)

library(devtools) devtools::install_github("mdlincoln/clipr") devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr@rc_0.8.0") devtools::install_github("tidyverse/hms") devtools::install_github("r-spatial/sf") devtools::install_github("tidyverse/stringr") devtools::install_github("walkerke/tidycensus")

[walkerke]

@mfherman you're the best! I'm putting you down as a package contributor on the next CRAN release for answering so many user questions.

[mfherman]

Thanks @walkerke, glad to be of service!

[josiekre]

Looks like the key is having compatible tibble and tidycensus. I needed to update to tibble 2.0.1 and tidycensus to 0.9.0 for the error to go away. Update the Description to require 2.0.1 or greater for tibble?

[josiekre]

I take that back. I updated tidycensus to 0.9 in a Docker container without touching anything else, and it seems to be working. tibble is at 1.4.2. So something else different between these two machines is causing the error. Ugh.

[mfherman]

@josiekre if you are able to isolate which package/version is causing the error, let us know and we can take a look.

[walkerke]

Thanks @josiekre @mfherman - yes let's update the required dependency version once the problem is identified.

[abiyug]

Run into this issue. I think this issue is due to older R version. I run into the same issue with R version 3.3.2, but tidycensus from CRAN on R version 3.5.2 works without having to install the devtool version.

In the package description it says tidycensus "depends on R >= 3.3.0", this should be updated.

With constant version updates of dependencies and import pkgs, I think, including a tried/tested/recommended software comparability matrix in the documentation will help.