pull_acs_basetables function

Pull ACS base tables

A wrapper function to pull multiple base tables from ACS API via acs.fetch.

pull_acs_basetables(endyear, span, geography, table_vec)

Arguments

• endyear: An integer, indicating the latest year of the data in the survey.
• span: An integer in c(1,3,5) indicating the span of the desired data.
• geography: a valid geo.set object specifying the census geography or geographies to be fetched.
• table_vec: A character vector specifying ACS base tables.

Returns

A 'macroACS' class object

Examples

## Not run:

# make geography
la_geo <- acs::geo.make(state= "CA", county= "Los Angeles")
# pull data 
la_dat <- pull_acs_basetables(endyear= 2015, span= 1, geography= la_geo, 
  table_vec= c("B01001", "B01002", "B01003"))
## End(Not run)

References

https://data.census.gov/cedsci/