Find NHGIS ACS Files on Disk

Look in specified path to find any downloaded and unzipped csv and txt files from NHGIS.ORG, with American Community Survey (ACS) data from the US Census Bureau.

Usage

nhgisfind(folder = getwd(), silent = FALSE)

Arguments

folder

Optional path to look in. Default is getwd().

silent

Optional, default is FALSE. Prints filenames if TRUE.

Value

A named list with datafiles= a vector of one or more filenames (estimates and also MOE files) and codebooks= a vector of one or more filenames. The function also prints the information unless silent=TRUE.

Details

This is designed to get a list of filenames that match the format of csv and txt files obtained from NHGIS.org and already unzipped in a local folder. Obtaining NHGIS.org data requires an account at https://data2.nhgis.org/main, https://www.nhgis.org Data can be downloaded by selecting, for example,
block groups, all in US, acs2007-2011, and specifying the desired ACS Table(s). Research using NHGIS data should cite it as:
Minnesota Population Center. National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota 2011.

See also

nhgis(), nhgisread()