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Example using R and the Census API to get pop for all 50 states

First step is to install httr

install.packages("httr")
library(httr)

Next step is to activate an API key with the census. Just go here and follow the directions.

Once that is done the following should get your data into R. Be sure to put your active API key in the URL.

myURL<-"http://api.census.gov/data/2010/sf1?key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE&get=P0010001,NAME&for=state:*"
x<-content(GET(myURL))
xdf<-data.frame(do.call("rbind",x[-1]))
names(xdf)<-x[[1]]
xdf

Trick to get other data out of census is to dig into the Census API.

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