trulia/choroplethr

Intermittent problem accessing some acs tables

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pssguy commented

Sorry to bother you again and not even sure this is a choroplethr problem but

get_acs_df("B03001", "state",column_idx = 1)
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
unable to find an inherited method for function ‘geography’ for signature ‘"matrix"’

I'm certain this was working yesterday
Some other tables have same problem, eg 04001.others are ok eg 02001

arilamstein commented

I tried that and got the same error you did. Then I tried it again 10
minutes later and it worked. My suspicion is that the error was in the
Census API - it just went down for a bit.

I think that this is the tradeoff of using the acs.R package, which
choroplethr uses to get the census data. We don't have to download or
process the data ourselves, and data is available as soon as they publish
it. But it is not 100% reliable.

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Sorry to bother you again and not even sure this is a choroplethr problem
but

get_acs_df("B03001", "state",column_idx = 1)
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
unable to find an inherited method for function 'geography' for signature
'"matrix"'

I'm certain this was working yesterday
Some other tables have same problem, eg 04001.others are ok eg 02001

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pssguy commented

Ok well glad I wasn't imagining things. When I fist got the error I though it was something to do with format as it mentions geography which is the only way to get a data.frame, I believe. Then it started working. The B02001 has always worked - maybe as it is just one column??

arilamstein commented

I don't think it had anything to do with it being just one column - I
tested it for all columns as well.

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Ok well glad I wasn't imagining things. When I fist got the error I though
it was something to do with format as it mentions geography which is the
only way to get a data.frame, I believe. Then it started working. The
B02001 has always worked - maybe as it is just one column??

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