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search_catalogues: Search for ABS catalogues that match a string

Description

`download_abs_data_cube()` requires that you specify a `catalogue`. `search_catalogues()` helps you find the catalogue you want, by searching for a given string in the catalogue names, product title, and broad topic.

Usage

search_catalogues(string, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

string

Character. A word or phrase you want to search for, such as "labour" or "union". Not case sensitive.

refresh

Logical. `FALSE` by default. If `TRUE`, will re-scrape the ABS website to ensure that the list of catalogues is up-to-date.

Value

A data frame (tibble) containing the topic (`heading`), product title (`sub_heading`), catalogue (`catalogue`) and URL (`URL`) of any catalogues that match the provided string.

See Also

Other data cube functions: download_abs_data_cube(), show_available_catalogues(), show_available_files()

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
search_catalogues("labour")
# }

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