Download Census 2020 data files from Census Bureau - For Island Areas VI GU MP AS

Download Census 2020 data files from Census Bureau - For Island Areas VI GU MP AS

Usage

census2020_download_islandareas(
  folder = NULL,
  mystates = c("VI", "GU", "MP", "AS"),
  allstates = c("VI", "GU", "MP", "AS"),
  baseurl = "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/island-areas/",
  urlmiddle = "demographic-and-housing-characteristics-file/",
  zipnames_suffix = "2020.dhc.zip",
  overwrite = TRUE
)

Arguments

folder

Default is a tempdir. Folder and subfolder for data are created if they do not exist.

mystates

Character vector of 2 letter abbreviations, optional,

• Default is VI GU MP AS

allstates

Default is VI GU MP AS

baseurl

default is the URL of the Census Bureau site's folder with the data

urlmiddle

Default is empty for States info, but for Island Areas, urlmiddle = "demographic-and-housing-characteristics-file/"

zipnames_suffix

last part of the filenames Census provides - default should work

overwrite

set to FALSE to skip download if filename already in folder, but note it does not check if any existing file is corrupt/size zero/obsolete/etc.

Value

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

See also

census2020_get_data() census2020_download()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  blocks_islandareas <- census2020_download_islandareas()
 } # }