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Get ABS' Broadacre Crops Production and Value by Australia, State and Territory by Year

Source: R/read_abs_broadacre_data.R
read_abs_broadacre_data.Rd

Automates downloading and importing of ABS broadacre crop production data. Please view the comments embedded in the spreadsheets themselves (that really should be columns of comments on the data) for important information.

Usage

read_abs_broadacre_data(crops = "winter", year = "latest", x = NULL)

Arguments

crops

A character vector providing the desired cropping data, one of:

  • winter (default),

  • summer or

  • sugarcane.

year

A string value providing the year of interest to download. Formatted as "2022-23" or "2023-24" or use "latest" for the most recent release available. Defaults to "latest".

x

A file path providing the file with the data to be imported. The file is assumed to be unarchived (i.e., still zipped). This function does not provide any checking whether this function is the proper function for the provided file. Defaults to NULL, assuming that the file will be downloaded in the active R session.

Value

A data.table::data.table() object of the requested data.

Details

Technically these data are from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, not ABARES, but the data is agricultural and so it's serviced in this package.

References

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/agriculture/australian-agriculture-broadacre-crops.

See also

Other ABS: read_abs_horticulture_data(), read_abs_livestock_data()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
broadacre_data  <- read_abs_broadacre_data()

broadacre_data
}