cansim (version 0.5.0)

get_cansim_table_url: Retrieve a Statistics Canada data table URL given a table number

Description

Retrieve URL of a table from the API given a table number. Offers a more stable approach than manually guessing the URL of the table.

Usage

get_cansim_table_url(cansimTableNumber, language = "english")

Value

String object containing URL for specified table number

Returns NULL if the data could not be retrieved because StatCan is unavailable.

Arguments

cansimTableNumber

the NDM table number to load

language

"english" (the default) or "french". Short forms such as "en", "eng", "fr" or "fra" are accepted, as are the French names "anglais" and "francais"; case and accents are ignored

Examples

# \donttest{
get_cansim_table_url("34-10-0013")
get_cansim_table_url("34-10-0013", language = "fr")
# }