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<p><em>This is <a target="_blank" href="http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/R-pkgs-acs-version-2-0-an-R-package-to-download-and-analyze-data-from-the-US-Census-td4718829.html">a re-post</a> from the <a target="_blank" href="https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages">R packages mailing list</a></em></p>
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the “acs”<br>
package, now available on CRAN<br>
&lt;<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/acs/index.html">http://cran.r-project.org/<wbr>web/packages/acs/index.html</a>>.</p>
<p>The package allows users to download, manipulate, analyze, and present<br>
demographic data from the U.S. Census, with special tools and methods<br>
to simplify the tasks of working with estimates and standard errors<br>
contained in data from the American Community Survey (ACS).</p>
<p>Version 2.0 of the package provides full support for all ACS data<br>
available through the Census API — including the most recent 2014<br>
data — as well as Decennial Census Data from 1990, 2000, and 2010.<br>
Users can work with existing census geographies (states, counties,<br>
tracts, block-groups, places, zip code areas, congressional districts,<br>
school districts, etc.), or create and save their own custom<br>
geographies with the package’s “geo.make()” function.</p>
<p>For more information please visit:<br>
&lt;<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://eglenn.scripts.mit.edu/citystate/2016/03/acs-version-2-0-now-on-cran">http://eglenn.scripts.mit.<wbr>edu/citystate/2016/03/acs-<wbr>version-2-0-now-on-cran</a>>,<br>
and the newly-updated “Working with acs.R” user guide at<br>
&lt;<a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="http://dusp.mit.edu/sites/dusp.mit.edu/files/attachments/publications/working_with_acs_R_v_2.0.pdf">http://dusp.mit.edu/sites/<wbr>dusp.mit.edu/files/<wbr>attachments/publications/<wbr>working_with_acs_R_v_2.0.pdf</a>>.</p>
<p>Special thanks to package beta testers (Ari, Arin, Bethany, Emma,<br>
John, and Michael) and the entire acs-r community, as well as to Uwe<br>
and Kurt at CRAN for their infinite patience and continuing care and<br>
stewardship of the system.</p>
<p>—<br>
Ezra Haber Glenn, AICP<br>
Department of Urban Studies and Planning<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 7-337<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
<a target="_blank" href="mailto:eglenn@mit.edu">eglenn@mit.edu</a><br>
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