Download, Manipulate, and Present American Community Survey and Decennial Data from the US Census
Class "acs"
Download, Manipulate, and Present American Community Survey and Decenn...
Downloads demographic data (ACS, SF1, SF3) via the Census API and conv...
Class "acs.lookup"
Search for relevant demographic variables and tables from the US Censu...
Downloads and stores XML tables used to lookup variable codes, table n...
Installs an API key from the US Census to use with calls to `acs.fetch...
After updating the acs package, installs an archived API key from a pr...
Combine acs Objects by Columns
Return upper and lower bounds of given confidence intervals for acs ob...
Convert dollar values of acs object to a new base year.
Return (or change) currency.year value from the metadata of an acs obj...
Divide one acs object or variable by another.
Return or replace endyear value from the metadata of an acs object.
Convenience function to "flatten" a nested geo.set object.
Search Census geographies
Create a new geo.set object for use with the acs package.
Class "geo.set"
Return or replace geography metadata of an acs object.
acs Methods for Function plot
Prompt for new values for metadata in an acs object.
Combine acs Objects by Rows
Reads a comma-delimited file from the American Community Survey and cr...
acs Methods for Function sum
Provides a general toolkit for downloading, managing, analyzing, and presenting data from the U.S. Census (<https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html>), including SF1 (Decennial short-form), SF3 (Decennial long-form), and the American Community Survey (ACS). Confidence intervals provided with ACS data are converted to standard errors to be bundled with estimates in complex acs objects. Package provides new methods to conduct standard operations on acs objects and present/plot data in statistically appropriate ways.
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