read.abares: Read Data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Download and import agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) <https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares> and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) <https://www.abs.gov.au>. Data types serviced include spreadsheets, comma separated value (CSV) files, geospatial data including shape files and geotiffs covering topics including broadacre crops, livestock, soil data, commodities and more. Unifies field names and formats for data interoperability making analysis easier by standardising names between data formats. Also simplifies importing geospatial data as well as correcting issues in the geospatial data upon import.
| Version: | 2.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | brio, cli, data.table, fs, htm2txt, httr2, lubridate, purrr, readxl, rlang, sf, stars, stringr, terra, tidync, utils, whoami, withr |
| Suggests: | bit64, knitr, openxlsx, pander, rmarkdown, roxyglobals, skimr, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), zip |
| Published: | 2026-01-22 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.read.abares (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Adam H. Sparks 
[cre, aut],
Curtin University  [fnd, cph]
(http://www.curtin.edu.au/),
Grains Research and Development Corporation
[fnd, cph] (Project: GRDC
Project CUR2210-005OPX (AAGI-CU)),
Jacob Wujciak-Jens
[ctb]
(Assisted with troubleshooting formatting in documentation to
display '<' and '>' properly),
Nicholas Potter
[rev] (rOpenSci Review
https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667),
María Paula Caldas
[rev]
(rOpenSci Review
https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667) |
| Maintainer: | Adam H. Sparks <adamhsparks at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares, https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | read.abares citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | read.abares results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | read.abares.html , read.abares.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Setting Global Options for read.abares (source, R code) Working with spatial data available through read.abares (source) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | read.abares_2.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz |
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