Unable to Download Shape Files about tigris HOT 9 CLOSED

@semiographics Ah, I see what's going on. The CB ZCTA file has not yet been released for 2021, so you are trying to download a file that doesn't exist. I need to put in an error message until they release it, I'll patch that shortly.

You can still get 2020 CB ZCTAs by putting in the argument year = 2020. Or, you can also get 2021 ZCTAs from the regular TIGER/Line dataset by removing the cb = TRUE argument.

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Hmm. Can you try this for me?

library(rappdirs)

user_cache_dir()

Navigate to that directory on your machine and see if there is a tigris folder there - if so, enter it and see if any datasets are found inside. Are you on a work machine with heavy restrictions by chance?

If nothing is writing there this may be the case. In this instance try entering the command options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE) before running tigris commands, as this will tell tigris to download the shapefiles to a temporary directory instead, which may work.

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Really appreciate the feedback.
Here are the results. (I believe it might be a Windows 10 change that is causing the problem.)
Installed rappdirs. The result of user_cache_dir() is "C:\Users\czwea\AppData\Local\Cache"
That folder does not exist on my machine (which I have admin rights to). I do have this folder:
C:\Users\czwea\AppData\Local\tigris\tigris\Cache
This folder is empty.
Entered: options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE)
This corrected my problem. plot(ua) as an example works.
Your help is much appreciated. Many thanks.
Cliff

Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:25:37 -0800
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Subject: Re: [tigris] Unable to Download Shape Files (#14)

Hmm. Can you try this for me?

library(rappdirs)

user_cache_dir()

Navigate to that directory on your machine and see if there is a tigris folder there - if so, enter it and see if any datasets are found inside. Are you on a work machine with heavy restrictions by chance?

If nothing is writing there this may be the case. In this instance try entering the command options(tigris_use_cache = FALSE) before running tigris commands, as this will tell tigris to download the shapefiles to a temporary directory instead, which may work.

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Ok great. Closing the issue for now but will investigate the Windows 10 issue, the folder you've described is the folder that tigris should be writing to.

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Same problem as above.
If tigris_use_cache is set to TRUE, the download fails over and over.
If tigris_use_cache is set to FALSE, then
Error: Cannot open "...\Rtmp2NIlzp"; The source could be corrupt or not supported. See st_drivers() for a list of supported formats.
In addition: Warning message:
In unzip(file_loc, exdir = tmp) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
I've gone around in circles for 2 hours. Installed the dev version, done everything everyone has suggested.

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@semiographics can you post the code you've tried and the results of your sessionInfo()?

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library(tigris)
library(sf)

zips <- zctas(cb=TRUE, starts_with="00601")
Retrieving data for the year 2021
Previous download failed. Re-download attempt 1 of 3...
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Previous download failed. Re-download attempt 2 of 3...
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Previous download failed. Re-download attempt 3 of 3...
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Error: Download failed; check your internet connection or the status of the Census Bureau website
at http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/.

sessionInfo()

R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] rappdirs_0.3.3 sf_1.0-9 tigris_2.0 RPostgres_1.4.4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.9 class_7.3-19 prettyunits_1.1.1 ps_1.7.2 assertthat_0.2.1 rprojroot_2.0.3
[7] digest_0.6.31 utf8_1.2.2 mime_0.12 R6_2.5.1 e1071_1.7-12 httr_1.4.4
[13] ggplot2_3.4.0 pillar_1.8.1 rlang_1.0.6 uuid_1.1-0 curl_4.3.3 rstudioapi_0.14
[19] miniUI_0.1.1.1 callr_3.7.3 urlchecker_1.0.1 blob_1.2.3 desc_1.4.2 devtools_2.4.4
[25] stringr_1.5.0 htmlwidgets_1.6.1 bit_4.0.5 munsell_0.5.0 proxy_0.4-27 shiny_1.7.4
[31] compiler_4.1.2 httpuv_1.6.7 pkgconfig_2.0.3 pkgbuild_1.4.0 htmltools_0.5.4 tidyselect_1.2.0
[37] tibble_3.1.8 fansi_1.0.3 crayon_1.5.2 dplyr_1.0.10 withr_2.5.0 later_1.3.0
[43] grid_4.1.2 xtable_1.8-4 gtable_0.3.1 lifecycle_1.0.3 DBI_1.1.3 magrittr_2.0.3
[49] units_0.8-1 scales_1.2.1 KernSmooth_2.23-20 cli_3.5.0 stringi_1.7.6 cachem_1.0.6
[55] fs_1.5.2 promises_1.2.0.1 remotes_2.4.2 ellipsis_0.3.2 generics_0.1.3 vctrs_0.5.1
[61] tools_4.1.2 bit64_4.0.5 glue_1.6.2 purrr_1.0.0 hms_1.1.2 processx_3.8.0
[67] pkgload_1.3.2 fastmap_1.1.0 colorspace_2.0-3 sessioninfo_1.2.2 classInt_0.4-8 memoise_2.0.1
[73] profvis_0.3.7 usethis_2.1.6

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Aha...
Thanks for the quick response.
You know, it's funny because I pulled the whole set from the Cartographic Boundaries page yesterday and I recall that I had to go to the 2020 tab.
Here I am trying to help somebody on stackexchange who apparently doesn't know how to execute a join. Was trying to reproduce their code...
Thanks again.

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Just a bump to suggest a clearer message when maps do not exist, as @walkerke suggests. When you ask for a year that doesn't exist the resulting error is quite opaque.

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#Trying to pull the 2003 Census shapefile in using the tigris package:
counties_2003 = counties(state = "California", cb = TRUE, year = 2003)
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Error: Cannot open "C:\Users\holtd\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpycBSep"; The source could be corrupt or not supported. See st_drivers() for a list of supported formats.
In addition: Warning message:
In unzip(file_loc, exdir = tmp) : error 1 in extracting from zip file
#Trying to pull the 2003 Census shapefile in using the tigris package:
counties_2003 = counties(state = "California", cb = TRUE, year = 2020)
|==================================================================================| 100%
Using FIPS code '06' for state 'California'
`

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