tidycensus is an R package that allows users to interface with the US Census Bureau's decennial Census and five-year American Community APIs and return tidyverse-ready data frames, optionally with simple feature geometry included. Install from CRAN with the following command:
install.packages("tidycensus")For the latest updates, install from GitHub:
remotes::install_github("walkerke/tidycensus")To learn more about the package, please visit the package documentation at https://walker-data.com/tidycensus/ or read the book Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R at https://walker-data.com/census-r/.
Note: This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.