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Questions - tidycensus

get_decennial() returns error for 2020 data?

I've been working with census data from 2000, 2010, and 2020 for a local geography. My pulls for 2000 and 2010 work with no problem, but I get an error when I try to pull 2020 data. vars = c("P00...
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Nissim

census

tidycensus

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Remove the outer boundary of the US using tidycensus, sf, and/or tmap packages

I downloaded the polygons for the contiguous United States from the tidycensus package. However, due to mapping needs, I would like to remove the outline of the US from the polygon, leaving the intern...
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z_11122

r

gis

sf

tmap

tidycensus

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

Latest Answer

So here the strategy would be: Create a single POLYGON of the contiguos US and cast it to LINESTRING (in fact, this is just to create the country borders using contig_48). Create a small buffer of th...
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dieghernan

Can I map specific blocks using Tidycensus and Tigris?

I'm trying to map data for four blocks using R packages Tidycensus and Tigris. I wonder if it possible to specify the blocks you want to map, or if one must map the entire County? Could I add a line t...
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Abrina Williams

r

tidycensus

tigris

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

Latest Answer

You can't request data for individual blocks at a time, but you can pull down by county and filter for the blocks you need with dplyr::filter(). If you use shapefile caching with options(tigris_use_c...
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kwalkertcu

How can I filter out the small Hawaiian islands with get_acs?

Can you use the resolution argument in get_acs() to filter out the small islands in the Hawaiian archipelago? I might have found a bug in tidycensus, one of my favorite packages. I was mapping U.S con...
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scott_mpls

r

ggplot2

sf

tidycensus

tigris

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

Latest Answer

I fixed this in the latest CRAN release of tigris (sent it in last week); if you re-install tigris your original code will return the desired results.
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kwalkertcu

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