Add option to request a subset of zctas in get_acs() #309
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Based on #287, added a new parameter to
get_acs()
to specify one or more ZCTAs. You can pass a numeric or character vector of ZCTAs. Whengeometry = TRUE
, entire ZCTA shapefiles are pulled from Census, but only selected ZCTAs are included in results.I added some error messages if a user specifies ZCTAs and
geography != "ZCTA"
, or if using thestate
/county
along with thezcta
argument.I started to work on adding this option to
get_decennial()
but I realized that there are more geography options with the decennial API so that are you are able to select ZCTAs within states already. Because of this, the GEOIDs used for pulling ZCTA data are state + zip code (e.g.3610536
rather than just10536
). This makes it a bit trickier to implement the ability to select ZCTAs in the call, but certainly possible. @walkerke: do you think it's worth building in the ZCTA argument forget_decennial()
, or is the ability specify ZCTAs with states sufficient?Here is some code and output with the added feature to
get_acs()
: