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Working in RStudio, I am using the censusapi package to access Population Estimates data. Specifically, I am trying to access data on race/ethnicity from 2010-2017 using the Vintage 2017 Population Estimates.

Running this code:

POP_COUNTY10 <-getCensus(name = "2017/pep/charagegroups", key = Sys.getenv("CENSUS_KEY"),
vars = c("GEONAME", "RACE", "HISP", "POP", "DATE_DESC"),
region = "COUNTY:*", date = "3:10")

I get this error message: "Error: error: estimated query results exceed cell limit of 500000"

I've tried just selecting one year or one county and I get the same error. Are there any workarounds? Is this an error with RStudio?

This code works at the national and state levels.

Hey Amanda!

You need to specify which state you want. Take a look at the example below, it is from the Getting started with censusapi. After specifying that you want county level data, you need to add regionin = "state:1,2" to identify the state. In this example 1 and 2 refer to Alabama and Alaska.

sahie_counties <- getCensus(name = "timeseries/healthins/sahie",

vars = c("NAME", "IPRCAT", "IPR_DESC", "PCTUI_PT"),

region = "county:*", regionin = "state:1,2", time = 2015)

head(sahie_counties, n=12L)