Fetches ACS table data from the Census Bureau API

Source: R/helpers.R

A wrapper around tidycensus::get_acs() which fetches data from the Census Bureau API, adds a column with the year of the data, and removes the unneeded margin of error columns.

fetch_acs(..., quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

...

Parameters passed to tidycensus::get_acs().
quiet

Boolean to suppress status messages.

Value

A data frame with the requested ACS data.

  • year: Year (numeric)

  • fips: Geographic unit FIPS code (character)

  • Additional columns with requested data

See also

tidycensus::get_acs()