Package: cancensus Type: Package Title: Access, Retrieve, and Work with Canadian Census Data and Geography Version: 0.6.0 Authors@R: c( person("Jens", "von Bergmann", email = "jens@mountainmath.ca", role = c("aut"), comment = "API creator and maintainer"), person("Dmitry", "Shkolnik", email = "shkolnikd@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = "Package maintainer, responsible for correspondence"), person("Aaron", "Jacobs", email = "atheriel@gmail.com", role = "aut")) Description: 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 1996; 2001; 2006; 2011; 2016; 2021). License: MIT + file LICENSE Encoding: UTF-8 LazyData: yes ByteCompile: yes NeedsCompilation: no Imports: digest (>= 0.1), dplyr (>= 1.0), httr (>= 1.0.0), jsonlite (>= 1.0), sf, geojsonsf, rlang, readr RoxygenNote: 7.3.3 Suggests: knitr, ggplot2, leaflet, mapdeck, rmarkdown, scales, sp, tidyr, lwgeom, xml2, testthat (>= 3.0.0), microbenchmark VignetteBuilder: knitr URL: https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus, https://mountainmath.github.io/cancensus/, https://censusmapper.ca/api BugReports: https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues Depends: R (>= 4.1) Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev libx11-dev Repository: https://mountainmath.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-04-14 17:54:36 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/mountainmath/cancensus RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 8ff2340dac0915dbd53bda45155af12e87394542 Packaged: 2026-06-13 06:18:52 UTC; root Author: Jens von Bergmann [aut] (API creator and maintainer), Dmitry Shkolnik [aut, cre] (Package maintainer, responsible for correspondence), Aaron Jacobs [aut] Maintainer: Dmitry Shkolnik