Load variables from a decennial Census or American Community Survey dataset to search in R

load_variables(
  year,
  dataset = c("sf1", "sf2", "sf3", "sf4", "pl", "dhc", "dp", "as", "gu", "mp", "vi",
    "acsse", "dpas", "dpgu", "dpmp", "dpvi", "acs1", "acs3", "acs5", "acs1/profile",
    "acs3/profile", "acs5/profile", "acs1/subject", "acs3/subject", "acs5/subject",
    "acs1/cprofile", "acs5/cprofile"),
  cache = FALSE
)

Arguments

year: The year for which you are requesting variables. Either the year or endyear of the decennial Census or ACS sample. 5-year ACS data is available from 2009 through 2020. 1-year ACS data is available from 2005 through 2021, with the exception of 2020.
dataset: One of "sf1", "sf2", "sf3", "sf4", "pl", "dhc", "dp", "as", "gu", "mp", "vi", "acsse", "acs1", "acs3", "acs5", "acs1/profile", "acs3/profile", "acs5/profile", "acs1/subject", "acs3/subject", "acs5/subject", "acs1/cprofile", or "acs5/cprofile".
cache: Whether you would like to cache the dataset for future access, or load the dataset from an existing cache. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A tibble of variables from the requested dataset.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
v15 <- load_variables(2015, "acs5", cache = TRUE)
View(v15)
}