We recently pushed an update of our [`censusr`](https://github.com/transportfoundry/censusr)
package to CRAN. `censusr` allows R users to download data from the US Census
Bureau's API directly to their workspaces, enabling scripting and powerful analyses. This new update uses the https protocol and includes new geotagging functions.

Here at Transport Foundry we regularly use data from the U.S. Census Bureau to validate our input data and our simulation engine outputs. To make this task easier for us, we wrote an R package that downloads data from the U.S. Census Bureau directly into a user's R environment. We have published this package – censusr – on CRAN under an open-source license. We hope others can use it to streamline their analyses. Contributions to the source code are welcome on GitHub.