We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.1.0 of the "acs" package, now available on CRAN <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/index.html>.
The package allows users to download, manipulate, analyze, and present demographic data from the U.S. Census, with special tools and methods to simplify the tasks of working with estimates and standard errors contained in data from the American Community Survey (ACS). Important: version 2.1.0 of the package is a "minor update" in terms of features, but it includes a number of low-level tweaks necessary to accommodate upcoming changes in the Census API, including a shift to https transfer. Current users are strongly encouraged to update as soon as possible to avoid problems at the end of the summer. Other minor changes include (a) removing plyr from a "dependency" and simply importing the required "rbind.fill" function, and (b) updating cbind/rbind options to be consistent with S3 methods. For more information on the package and the update, please visit: <http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2016/03/acs-version-2-0-now-on-cran>, and the "Working with acs.R" user guide at <http://dusp.mit.edu/sites/dusp.mit.edu/files/attachments/publications/working_with_acs_R_v_2.0.pdf>. -- Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-346 Cambridge, MA 02139 egl...@mit.edu http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/ezra-glenn 617.253.2024 (w) 617.721.7131 (c) _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list r-packa...@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.