browse_rba: Browse available RBA data series

In readrba: Download and Tidy Data from the Reserve Bank of Australia

Browse available RBA data series

Description

Use these functions to find the table number or series ID of the data you're interested in.

Usage

browse_rba_series(search_string = "")

browse_rba_tables(search_string = "", refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

search_string	Word or phrase to search for, such as "gold" or "commodity" or "labour". If left as "", the function will return all series.
refresh	logical; FALSE by default. When FALSE, internal data is used. When TRUE, the RBA website is re-scraped to obtain current information about available tables This can take a few seconds.

Value

A data.frame (tbl_df) containing RBA data series/tables that match the search_string. Where no search_string is supplied, the data.frame will contain information about all RBA series/tables.

The data.frame returned by browse_rba_tables() includes a column called readable. This column takes the value TRUE if the table is able to be read by read_rba() and FALSE if it cannot be read.

Examples

# Find series that contain 'unemployment'
browse_rba_series("unemployment")

# Or all labour-related series
browse_rba_series("labour")

# Or those related to commodities
browse_rba_series("commodities")

# Or all series
browse_rba_series()

# Or just look for tables that contain the word 'labour'
browse_rba_tables("labour")

# Or all tables
browse_rba_tables()

# To re-scrape the RBA website to ensure you have up-to-date information
# about available tables:
## Not run: 
browse_rba_tables(refresh = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

readrba documentation built on June 17, 2022, 9:07 a.m.