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  "Error when running query"

  When I query the following: http://api.census.gov/data/2010/acs5?key=MY_KEY_HERE&get=B19113_001E,NAME&for=tract:*&in=county:31,state:27 I receive the following: "There was an error while running your query. We've logged the error and we'll correct it ASAP. Sorry for the inconvenience." Any idea what's up with that? (I am working on my acs.R package -- see http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/02/major-improvements-to-acs-r-sneak-peak-at-version-1-0/ ...more »

  When I query the following:

  http://api.census.gov/data/2010/acs5?key=MY_KEY_HERE&get=B19113_001E,NAME&for=tract:*&in=county:31,state:27

  I receive the following:

  "There was an error while running your query. We've logged the error and we'll correct it ASAP. Sorry for the inconvenience."

  Any idea what's up with that? (I am working on my acs.R package -- see http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/02/major-improvements-to-acs-r-sneak-peak-at-version-1-0/ -- and this bug causes the automated downloading to crash when this result comes up.)

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  Submitted by eglenn 14 days ago

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  acs package in R

  Working with the Puget Sound Regional Council, I've modified my acs package for R to allow users to download data directly from the Census ACS API. See http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/02/major-improvements-to-acs-r-sneak-peak-at-version-1-0/ for more info and user guide. Features and improvements include: * The package is now capable of downloading data directly from the new Census American Community ...more »

  Working with the Puget Sound Regional Council, I've modified my acs package for R to allow users to download data directly from the Census ACS API. See http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2013/02/major-improvements-to-acs-r-sneak-peak-at-version-1-0/ for more info and user guide.

  Features and improvements include:

  * The package is now capable of downloading data directly from the new Census American Community Survey API and importing into R (with proper statistical treatment of estimates and error, variable and geographic relabeling, and more), all through a single “acs.fetch()” function;

  * The package includes a new “geo.make()” function to allow users to create their own custom geographies for organize and download data; and

  * The package provides two special “lookup” tools to help filter through all the existing Census geographies (with the “geo.lookup()” function) and tables (with the “acs.lookup()” function) to find exactly what they want. These functions return new R “lookup” objects which can be saved, manipulated, and passed to acs.fetch() for downloading data.

  (Still beta, but getting close -- any help/testing appreciated.)

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