get_ca_tract_acs_data: Returns a list representing American Community Survey (ACS)...

In arilamstein/choroplethrCaCensusTract: Shapefile, Metadata and Visualization Functions for US Census Tracts in California

Description

Given an ACS tableId, endyear and span. Prompts user for the column id if there are multiple tables. The first element of the list is a data.frame with estimates. The second element is the ACS title of the column. Requires the acs package to be installed, and a Census API Key to be set with the acs's api.key.install function. Census API keys can be obtained at http://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html.

Usage

get_ca_tract_acs_data(tableId, endyear = 2012, span = 5, column_idx = -1,
  include_moe = FALSE)

Arguments

tableId	The id of an ACS table
endyear	The end year of the survey to use. See acs.fetch (?acs.fetch) and http://1.usa.gov/1geFSSj for details.
span	The span of time to use. See acs.fetch and http://1.usa.gov/1geFSSj for details. on the same longitude and latitude map to scale. This variable is only checked when the "states" variable is equal to all 50 states.
column_idx	The optional column id of the table to use. If not specified and the table has multiple columns, you will be prompted for a column id.
include_moe	Whether to include the 90 percent margin of error.

See Also

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/help/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?lang=en&type=survey&id=survey.en.ACS_ACS, which lists all ACS Surveys.

arilamstein/choroplethrCaCensusTract documentation built on May 10, 2019, 1:27 p.m.