read.abares (version 2.0.0)

read.abares-package: read.abares: Read Data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Description

Download and import agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) https://www.abs.gov.au. Data types serviced include spreadsheets, comma separated value (CSV) files, geospatial data including shape files and geotiffs covering topics including broadacre crops, livestock, soil data, commodities and more. Unifies field names and formats for data interoperability making analysis easier by standardising names between data formats. Also simplifies importing geospatial data as well as correcting issues in the geospatial data upon import.

Author

Maintainer: Adam H. Sparks (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Curtin University (ROR) (http://www.curtin.edu.au/) [funder, copyright holder]

• Grains Research and Development Corporation (ROR) (GRDC Project CUR2210-005OPX (AAGI-CU)) [funder, copyright holder]

• Jacob Wujciak-Jens (ORCID) (Assisted with troubleshooting formatting in documentation to display '<' and '>' properly) [contributor]

• Nicholas Potter (ORCID) (rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667) [reviewer]

• María Paula Caldas (ORCID) (rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667) [reviewer]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares

• https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares/issues