Download American Community Survey 5-yr data files

Attempts to download data files (estimates and margins of error) for specified states and tables, from the US Census Bureau's FTP site for American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year summary file data.

Usage

download.datafiles(
  tables,
  end.year = acsdefaultendyearhere_func(),
  mystates = 52,
  folder = getwd(),
  testing = FALSE,
  attempts = 5,
  silent = FALSE
)

Arguments

tables

Required character vector of table numbers, such as c("B01001", "B03002")

end.year

Character element, optional, like "2012". Defines last of five years of summary file dataset.

mystates

Character vector, now optional - Default is 50 states + DC + PR here, but otherwise relies on clean.mystates()

folder

Default is getwd()

testing

Default to FALSE. If TRUE, provides info on progress of download.

attempts

Default is 5, specifies how many tries (maximum) for unzipping before trying to redownload and then give up.

silent

Optional, default is FALSE. Whether progress info should be sent to standard output (like the screen).

Value

Effect is to download and save locally a number of data files.

See also

proxistat::get.distances() which allows you to get distances between all points.