Construct the query part of the URL for a call to the US Census API

census_api_query(variables, for_geo, for_items, ...)

Arguments

variables: a vector of strings with variable codes
for_geo: the geographic level of detail that you want
for_items: the specific geographic entities that you want
...: other key-value pairs to pass to the query

Value

a string with the query part of a Census API call

Examples

census_api_query(paste0("B25003_00", 1:3, "E"),
                 "tract",
                 "*",
                 state = 55L,
                 county = 101L)
#> [1] "B25003_001E,B25003_002E,B25003_003E&for=tract:*&in=state:55&in=county:101"

census_api_query(paste0("P1_00", c(1, 3, 4), "N"),
                 "block%20group",
                 "*",
                 state = 55L,
                 county = 101L)
#> [1] "P1_001N,P1_003N,P1_004N&for=block%20group:*&in=state:55&in=county:101"