censusapi0.8.0 package

Retrieve Data from the Census APIs

getCensus

Retrieve Census data from a given API

getFunction

Internal function: Get the API response, return a data frame

listCensusApis

Get useful dataset metadata on all available APIs as a data frame

listCensusMetadata

Get information about a specific API as a data frame

makeVarlist

Use variable metadata to find variables containing a given string.

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A wrapper for the U.S. Census Bureau APIs that returns data frames of Census data and metadata. Available datasets include the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Population Estimates and Projections, and more.

  • Maintainer: Hannah Recht
  • License: GPL-3
  • Last published: 2022-08-09

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