In konradedgar/SmarterScotland: Source Public Data from statistics.gov.scot

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

# Enable httptest for vignette development
library(httptest)
start_vignette("support-functions")

# Load package
library("SmarterScotland")

library(SmarterScotland)

The vignette("basic-workflow") vignette provides an outline of basic functionalities

Live reference data

More recent versions of the provided data sets can be sourced live from the statistics.gov.scot portal using dedicated functions, get_available_datasets sources available data and get_available_geographies() sources and parses Standard Geography Code Register. Searching for thematic data sets can be achieved simply using queries, as shown below.

get_available_datasets(pattern = "expectancy")

knitr::kable(get_available_datasets(pattern = "expectancy"))

Additional information on the available data can be gathered by following the links returned in the data set above. For instance http://statistics.gov.scot/data/pupil-attainment-asn points to Pupil Attainment (English and Maths) data set.

konradedgar/SmarterScotland documentation built on Oct. 3, 2019, 11:46 a.m.