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acs (version 0.5)

Download and manipulate data from the US Census ACS

Description

Provides a general toolkit for downloading, managing, and analyzing data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey (ACS) dataset. Confidence intervals provided with the data are converted to standard errors to be bundled with estimates in complex acs objects. Package provides new methods to conduct standard operations and tests of significance on acs objects in statistically appropriate ways. Current version is 0.5 +/- .15.

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install.packages('acs')

Monthly Downloads

107

Version

0.5

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Ezra Haber Glenn

Last Published

February 23rd, 2012

Functions in acs (0.5)

read.acs

Reads a comma-delimited file from the American Community Survey and creates an acs object with data, standard errors, and associated metadata.
kansas09

County-level data from the 2005-2009 American Community Survey for Kansas for use in examples of acs package.
kansas07

County-level data from the 2007 American Community Survey for Kansas for use in examples of acs package.
acs-package

Download and manipulate data from the US Census ACS
confint.acs

Return upper and lower bounds of given confidence intervals for acs objects.
acs-class

Class "acs"