Unzip ACS datafile per state, downloading missing ones first

Unzip ACS datafile for each specified US State, extracting specified table(s), downloading missing zip files first.

Usage

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

Arguments

tables

Character vector of table numbers needed such as 'B01001'

mystates

Character vector of 2-character state abbreviations. Default is all states.

folder

Default is current working directory.

end.year

optional – specifies last year of 5-year summary file.

testing

Default is FALSE. If TRUE, prints more info.

attempts

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

silent

Default is FALSE. Whether to send progress info to standard output.

Value

Side effect is unzipping file on disk (unless testing=TRUE)

See also

get.acs()