readabs

0.4.30

Download and Tidy Time Series Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

0packages depend

30.6Kdownloads / year

83.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Matt CowgillFirst published 2018-06-0427 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Downloads, imports, and tidies time series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics https://www.abs.gov.au/.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("readabs", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("mattcowgill/readabs")

Development version from mattcowgill/readabs. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-readabs

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-readabs

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-readabs

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

83.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 1,272 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 40%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 58%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

30.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,872 · ~84/day · ~2.6K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mattcowgill/readabs

110Stars

28Forks

15Open issues

2Open PRs

21Releases

387Commits

13Contributors

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387 commits · Last activity 2026-05-15 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (14)

readxl dplyr hutils fst purrr tidyr stringitoolsglue httr rvest xml2 rlang labelled

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown markdown testthat ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 4,643 (74%)Rd 1,263 (20%)Vignettes 383 (6%)Other 1 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 29 max
Test cases: 53 / 0.31 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

84%

Expression

85.3%

Tests / Examples

83.8% / – ex

Functions

64 29 exported

Complexity

3.1 avg / 29 max

Call network

64 nodes / 75 edges

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Lowest coverage

64 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
search_files exp	2	0%
check_lfs_grossflows	1	0%
download_previous_payrolls	5	0%
url_exists_nocurl	1	0%
read_lfs_grossflows exp	1	21%
check_abs_connection	3	33%

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Matt Cowgill

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.9

Authors (4)

Matt Cowgill

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.9

David Diviny

Author · added in 0.4.0

Jaron Lee

Author

Zoe Meers

Author

Contributors (4)

Kinto Behr

Contributor · added in 0.4.14

Francis Markham

Contributor · added in 0.4.18

Angus Moore

Contributor · added in 0.4.18

Hugh Parsonage

Contributor · added in 0.4.2

Package Timeline

27 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.2.9
2019-01-14 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2018-06-04
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-06-04
Total releases: 27 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 3.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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