Hi R team! Since last Friday 04/04, my team and I have faced an error with running the 'get_acs()' command from the tidycensus package. The code we ran and the error message we received are shown below. Our troubleshooting efforts showed that:
1. When we run the code with geometries turned off, the code runs as intended, but once geometry is made TRUE the code does not work. 2. We checked geometry = TRUE with various geographies (block group, place, county) and the error remained the same 3. We were still able to download and use the shapefile data from the Census Tigerlines folders online, which led us to suspect the error may be within R since the shapefiles are functional on the Census website. Thanks for the help! Code that works (geometry is FALSE here): #median household income for IL by tract acs <- get_acs(geography = "tract", table = "B19013", #can turn off if variables specified state = "IL", year = 2023, geometry = FALSE, #FALSE removes geometry, TRUE keeps it cache_table = TRUE) Code that doesn't work (geometry is TRUE here) #median household income for IL by tract acs <- get_acs(geography = "tract", table = "B19013", #can turn off if variables specified state = "IL", year = 2023, geometry = TRUE, #FALSE removes geometry, TRUE keeps it cache_table = TRUE) Error message: Getting data from the 2019-2023 5-year ACS Downloading feature geometry from the Census website. To cache shapefiles for use in future sessions, set `options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE)`. Loading ACS5 variables for 2023 from table B19013 and caching the dataset for faster future access. Using FIPS code '17' for state 'IL' Error : Cannot open "C:\Users\DKittaneh\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpQpm4Z8"; The source could be corrupt or not supported. See `st_drivers()` for a list of supported formats. In addition: Warning message: In unzip(file_loc, exdir = tmp) : error 1 in extracting from zip file Error: Your geometry data download failed. Please try again later or check the status of the Census Bureau website at https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/ ______________________________________________ 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 https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
