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cancensus

Access, Retrieve, and Work with Canadian Census Data and Geography

Installation

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Integrated, convenient, and uniform access to Canadian Census data and geography retrieved using the 'CensusMapper' API. This package produces analysis-ready tidy data frames and spatial data in multiple formats, as well as convenience functions for working with Census variables, variable hierarchies, and region selection. API keys are freely available with free registration at . Census data and boundary geometries are reproduced and distributed on an "as is" basis with the permission of Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada 2001; 2006; 2011; 2016; 2021).

Citation cancensus citation info
github.com/mountainMath/cancensus
mountainmath.github.io/cancensus/
censusmapper.ca/api
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Version 0.5.7
R ≥ 2.10
Published 2024-02-10 48 days ago
Needs compilation? no
License MIT
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Maintainer

Maintainer

Dmitry Shkolnik

shkolnikd@gmail.com

Authors

Jens von Bergmann

aut

(API creator and maintainer)

Dmitry Shkolnik

aut / cre

(Package maintainer, responsible for correspondence)

Aaron Jacobs

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Material

README
NEWS
Reference manual
Package source

In Views

OfficialStatistics

Vignettes

Additional datasets: Structural type of dwelling by document type
Making maps with cancensus
Additional datasets: Annual T1FF taxfiler data
cancensus
Data discovery
Finding intersecting geometries from custom data
StatCan attribute files
StatCan WDS

macOS

r-release

arm64

r-oldrel

arm64

r-release

x86_64

Windows

r-devel

x86_64

r-release

x86_64

r-oldrel

x86_64

Old Sources

cancensus archive

Depends

R ≥ 2.10

Imports

digest ≥ 0.1
dplyr ≥ 0.7
httr ≥ 1.0.0
jsonlite ≥1.0
rlang

Suggests

knitr
ggplot2
leaflet
mapdeck
rmarkdown
readr
scales
sp
sf
geojsonsf
tidyr
lwgeom
xml2

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