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readabs (version 0.4.9)

show_available_files: Helper function to show the files available in a particular catalogue number.

Description

To be used in conjunction with get_abs_data_cube().

Usage

show_available_files(catalogue_string, refresh = FALSE)

get_available_files(catalogue_string, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

catalogue_string

character string specifying the catalogue, e.g. "labour-force-australia-detailed". You can use show_available_catalogues() see all the possible catalogues, or search_catalogues() to find catalogues that contain a given string.

refresh

logical; `FALSE` by default. If `FALSE`, an internal table of the available ABS catalogues is used. If `TRUE`, this table is refreshed from the ABS website.

Value

A tibble containing the title of the file, the filename and the complete url.

Details

This function lists the possible files that are available in a catalogue. The filename (or an unambiguous part of the filename) must be specified as a string as an argument to download_abs_data_cube.

`get_available_files()` is an alias for `show_available_files()`.

See Also

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

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

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
show_available_files("labour-force-australia-detailed")
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }

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