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

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 <https://censusmapper.ca/api>. 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).

Last updated 10 months ago

8.77 score 82 stars 388 scripts 1.2k downloads

cansim - Accessing Statistics Canada Data Table and Vectors

Searches for, accesses, and retrieves new-format and old-format Statistics Canada data tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package deals with encoding issues, allows for bilingual English or French language data retrieval, and bundles convenience functions to make it easier to work with retrieved table data. Optional caching features are provided.

Last updated 16 days ago

8.31 score 43 stars 520 scripts 1.1k downloads

cmhc - Access, Retrieve, and Work with CMHC Data

Wrapper around the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) web interface. It enables programmatic and reproducible access to a wide variety of housing data from CMHC.

Last updated 17 days ago

7.04 score 18 stars 67 scripts 249 downloads

tongfen - Make Data Based on Different Geographies Comparable

Several functions to allow comparisons of data across different geographies, in particular for Canadian census data from different censuses.

Last updated 2 years ago

6.62 score 28 stars 60 scripts 170 downloads

VancouvR - Access the 'City of Vancouver' Open Data API

Wrapper around the 'City of Vancouver' Open Data API <https://opendata.vancouver.ca/api/v2/console> to simplify and standardize access to 'City of Vancouver' open data. Functionality to list the data catalogue and access data and geographic records.

Last updated 5 months ago

5.98 score 19 stars 25 scripts 252 downloads