Error when getting 2010 census block-level data for an area in Alaska

[chrismp]

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When I run this code...

get_decennial(
  geography = 'block',
  county = '158',
  state = '02',
  geometry = T,
  variables = 'P001001',
  cache_table = T
)

I get this error...

Getting data from the 2010 decennial Census
Downloading feature geometry from the Census website.  To cache shapefiles for use in future sessions, set `options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE)`.
No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF-8.
Error : Your API call has errors.  The API message returned is .
Using Census Summary File 1
Error in UseMethod("gather") : 
  no applicable method for 'gather' applied to an object of class "character"

[hadley]

I think you filed this in the wrong place.