getCPS

R Package for Pulling CPS Microdata from the Census API.

getCPS consists of a collection of wrappers around the censusapi & cpsR packages. It is currently in early development.

Download & Install

Method 1: Directly from GitHub using devtools

If you have the devtools package installed, you can directly install getCPS from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("aisolori/getCPS", dependencies = TRUE)

This command will also ensure that all package dependencies are installed. If you don’t have devtools installed yet, you can easily get it from CRAN:

install.packages("devtools")

If you are unable to use install_github() try Method 2:

Method 2: Manual Download and Install

1.Download the Package:
Click on the package name below to download the source file:

getCPS 0.1.1

2.Install the Package:
Once you’ve downloaded the .tar.gz file, open your R session or RStudio and use the following script to install:

devtools::install_local("path_to_downloaded_file/getCPS_0.1.1.tar.gz")

devtools::install_local() will ensure that dependencies needed for the package are installed.

Method 3:

If you are unable to use or install devtools the code below will also work, but will require manual installation of necesary dependencies. As you will likely hit errors similar to: ERROR: dependencies 'cpsR', 'censusapi' are not available for package 'getCPS'

install.packages("path_to_downloaded_file/getCPS_0.1.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

All necessary dependencies can be installed directly via cran by running the following script in R:

# Function to install a package if it's not already installed
install_if_not_present <- function(package, version = NULL) {
  if (!requireNamespace(package, quietly = TRUE)) {
    install.packages(package)
    message(paste0("Package: ", package, " has been installed."))
  } else {
    message(paste0("Package: ", package, " already installed."))
  }
}

# List of packages from the "Imports" and "Depends" sections of the DESCRIPTION file
packages_to_install <- c(
  "data.table", "dplyr", "jsonlite", "magrittr", "tibble", "tidyr", "rvest",
  "furrr", "cpsR", "censusapi", "pbapply"
)

# Installing the packages
invisible(lapply(packages_to_install, install_if_not_present))

# Print a message indicating that package installations are completed
message("All necessary packages have been installed or were already present.")