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Accessing Statistics Canada Data Table and Vectors

v0.4.4 · Aug 19, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Searches for, accesses, and retrieves Statistics Canada data tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package enriches the tables with metadata, 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. For more efficient data access the package allows for caching data in a local database and database level filtering, data manipulation and summarizing.

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Version History

26 tracked
new 0.4.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.3 diff Aug 18, 2025
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff May 29, 2025
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff May 11, 2025
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4 diff Mar 14, 2025
updated 0.4 ← 0.3.17 diff Feb 23, 2025
updated 0.3.17 ← 0.3.16 diff Nov 5, 2024
updated 0.3.16 ← 0.3.15 diff Mar 11, 2024
updated 0.3.15 ← 0.3.14 diff Oct 10, 2023
updated 0.3.14 ← 0.3.13 diff Jan 19, 2023
updated 0.3.13 ← 0.3.12 diff Nov 6, 2022
updated 0.3.12 ← 0.3.11 diff Jul 11, 2022
updated 0.3.11 ← 0.3.10 diff May 9, 2022
updated 0.3.10 ← 0.3.9 diff Sep 26, 2021
updated 0.3.9 ← 0.3.8 diff Jul 28, 2021