I hope someone can help me with this. I am working in R, and whenever I try to download files with tigris, I get:
Error: Download failed; check your internet connection or the status of the Census Bureau website
at http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/.
My internet connection is fine, and I end up manually downloading files.
When using TidyCensus, I get the same error using the geometry=TRUE argument for state and county geographies, and I suspect it uses tigris for this, because I AM able to use geometry=TRUE for tract-level geographies in TidyCensus without error.
I’ve just tried that site, and the relatively small files take some 15+ seconds to start downloading. I wonder if the curl system build into R is timing out.
I don’t know where the best place to discuss a particular R package would be, but here in the Fly.io community forum might not be entirely optimal, …