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easycensus

Quickly Find, Extract, and Marginalize U.S. Census Tables

v1.1.4 · May 13, 2026 · 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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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 13, 2026
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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
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies rlang vctrs pillar dplyr tidyr stringr censusapi cli redistverse birdie easycensus

Version History

6 tracked
updated 1.1.4 ← 1.1.3 diff May 14, 2026
new 1.1.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.1 diff Feb 19, 2025
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 19, 2023
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.2.1 diff Aug 24, 2022
new 0.2.1 Feb 27, 2022