[R] question re: tidycensus

[Milton O Faison]

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
M. Omar Faison, Ph.D.
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