r-census-tutorial-2015-05

This respository contains installation instructions and slides for my May 2015 tutorial Analyzing US Census Data with R. Before attempting to run the code in the slides, please do the following:

1. Download the latest version of R. As of this writing, the latest version is 3.2.0. You can see your current version by typing R.Version() from the R command line. You can get the latest version of R by googling "download latest version of R".

2. Run the install.R file in this directory.

3. Get an API Key from the US Census Bureau here. Then type:

library(acs)
api.key.install("<your census api key>")

The slides can also be downloaded from dropbox here.