Error in listCensusMetadata about censusapi HOT 4 CLOSED

Thanks all for the bug report, this has been fixed in version 0.4.1 with a4b1e0b. The bug was caused by the Census Bureau renaming a metadata attribute that was used by the ACS and a few other endpoints.

You can install the new version now directly from github:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("hrecht/censusapi")

v0.4.1 will also be submitted to CRAN in the near future.

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Thanks for reporting this. What version of R are you using and what computer system? (If others are reading this issue, please see if you get the same error.)

I assume something has changed in the underlying JSON that the censusapi package is reading. I'll add a bug fix in to the next version. In the meantime, the same information can be browsed in the HTML version of the variable list at https://api.census.gov/data/2016/acs/acs5/variables.html

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Thanks @hrecht for the quick reply. I am currently running R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) through Version 1.1.456 of of RStudio. And thanks for the tip on where to get the variable names.

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Hey @hrecht I'm having a similar issue - R 3.5.0 on Windows

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