This R package provides convenient access to historical economic data from Australia, collated from various sources.
Install from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("MattCowgill/auseconhist")
The seven appendix tables of Butlin, Dixon and
Lloyd 2014 are available
as butlin_t1
, butlin_t2
, and so on. They are tibbles in ‘wide’ (ie.
un-tidy) format, as in the source document.
Here’s what table 1 looks like:
library(auseconhist)
head(butlin_t1)
#> year rgdp ag_share mining_share manuf_share other_share
#> 1 1801 35 30 0 3 67
#> 2 1802 38 46 0 1 53
#> 3 1803 39 44 0 7 49
#> 4 1804 43 37 0 2 61
#> 5 1805 48 47 0 2 52
#> 6 1806 52 46 0 0 54
The variable names are short(ish) and use snake_case. For information
about the variables, see the dataset’s documentation, with ?butlin_t1
,
?butlin_t2
, etc.
This package is in ‘experimental’ stage. Objects may change name. The package may be merged with another, such as strayr. Please save local versions of any data you use in a script that you need to be reproducible.
The data included in this package is reproduced from the source documents as noted in the objects’ help files.