Re: [R] Households per Census block

I had to download a bunch of stuff but I got it mostly working. Unfortunately using the alternative method I get the following: housing-CensusAPI2010(c(H0010001), state.fips=state.fips, level = c(block), key, summaryfile = c(sf1)) Error in file(con, r) : cannot open the connection In

Re: [R] Households per Census block

Hi Keith, On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Keith S Weintraub kw1...@gmail.com wrote: I had to download a bunch of stuff but I got it mostly working. Unfortunately using the alternative method I get the following: housing-CensusAPI2010(c(H0010001), state.fips=state.fips, level = c(block),

Re: [R] Households per Census block

Can you give me a for-instance of “populations”? Is there a table or chart or list or… Also I guess that I should leave my R session on for as long as possible as “install.blk” takes a really long time to re-upload if that is what it is doing. Does install.blk go to the source every time?

Re: [R] Households per Census block

Hi Keith, I would only use install.blk() once. Then just load the library(UScensus2010blk) like normal on your machine (this should be relatively fast), redownloading and re-installing each time will be very expensive (both on download and time). The SF1 file manual produced by the US Census

Re: [R] Households per Census block

P.S. The US census has different populations (or worlds) so make sure the housing variable you use is accessing the correct world. Best, -- Zack - Zack W. Almquist Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and School of Statistics

Re: [R] Households per Census block

On Aug 4, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Keith S Weintraub wrote: Can you give me a for-instance of “populations”? Is there a table or chart or list or… Also I guess that I should leave my R session on for as long as possible as “install.blk” takes a really long time to re-upload if that is what it

[R] Households per Census block

Folks, I am using the UScensus2010 package and I am trying to figure out the number of households per census block. There are a number of possible data downloads in the package but apparently I am not smart enough to figure out which data-set is appropriate and what functions to use. Any

Re: [R] Households per Census block

Hi Anthony and Keith Weintraub, Here is a way to do what you are asking using the UScensus2010 packages: ## latest version of the package, not yet on CRAN install.packages(UScensus2010, repos=http://R-Forge.R-project.org;) library(UScensus2010) install.blk() library(UScensus2010blk) ### You will

Re: [R] Households per Census block

hi, ccing the package maintainer. one alternative is to pull the HU100 variable directly from the census bureau's summary files: that variable starts at position 328 and ends at 336. just modify this loop and you'll get a table with one-record-per-census-block in every state.