easycensus
Quickly Find, Extract, and Marginalize U.S. Census Tables
v1.1.4
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May 13, 2026
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MIT + file LICENSE
Description
Extracting desired data using the proper Census variable names can be time-consuming. This package takes the pain out of that process by providing functions to quickly locate variables and download labeled tables from the Census APIs (<https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html>).
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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 21, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
examples
Running examples in ‘easycensus-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:
> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: cens_geo
> ### Title: Construct a Geography Specification for Census Data
> ### Aliases: cens_geo
>
...[truncated]...
valid key must be included with each data API request.
You my signup for one here.
Your api call was: https://api.census.gov/data/missing_key.html
Calls: cens_geo -> as_tibble -> <Anonymous> -> apiParse
Execution halted