I got it: library(rjson) library(plyr) test<-fromJSON(file=url("http://api.census.gov/data/2010/sf1?key=mykey&get=P0030001,NAME&for=county:*&in=state:48")) test2<-ldply(test)[-1,] names(test2)<-ldply(test)[1,] head(test2)
P0030001 NAME state county 2 58458 Anderson County 48 001 3 14786 Andrews County 48 003 4 86771 Angelina County 48 005 5 23158 Aransas County 48 007 6 9054 Archer County 48 009 7 1901 Armstrong County 48 011 ----- Corey Sparks, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Demography University of Texas at San Antonio 501 West César E. Chávez Blvd Monterey Building 2.270C San Antonio, TX 78207 210-458-3166 corey.sparks 'at' utsa.edu coreysparks.weebly.com -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reading-data-from-Census-API-into-R-tp4684877p4684881.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.