[R] question re: tidycensus

[Bert Gunter]

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On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 8:04 AM Milton O Faison <MFaison using vsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I'm having a new (for me) problem with tidycensus. When I attempt to pull
> data at the zcta level using get_acs, I get "GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY" in
> the geometry column. It does not happen when I pull data at the census
> tract level. This is also a fairly new problem, because I was using old
> code that I wrote and successfully generated maps from in the past. Any
> thoughts? Here are some code snippets that you can run to see what I am
> talking about:
>
> zcta_test<-get_acs(geography="zcta",
>                        variables=(c(all_pop = "B03002_001",
>                                     white_pop = "B03002_003",
>                                     black_pop = "B03002_004",
>                                     latin_pop = "B03002_012")),
>                        geometry=T, cache=T )
>
> ct_test<-get_acs(geography="tract", state="51",
>                  variables=(c(all_pop = "B03002_001",
>                               white_pop = "B03002_003",
>                               black_pop = "B03002_004",
>                               latin_pop = "B03002_012")),
>                  geometry=T, cache=T )
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
> o
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