The tidycensus package is a contributed package, it's not part of R.
You should probably report this to its maintainers at
https://github.com/walkerke/tidycensus/issues
Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-04-09 12:15 p.m., Deana Kittaneh via R-help wrote:
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/
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