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MattCowgill / readabs

Download and tidy time series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in R

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get data by vintage

mcooganj opened this issue · comments

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the package is awesome! thanks. is there a way to get data by vintage?

i've been looking and this seems (rightly) focused on getting the most recent data.

It would be awesome to be able to put in a series id and get all the various vintages of data.

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Thanks very much @mcooganj! Glad to hear you're liking the package.

Unfortunately not, at this stage. The core read_abs() function is built around an ABS API called the Time Series Directory. The TSD only allows us to get the URLs of the most recent release of a given time series. It would be possible to write a function to fetch previous vintages, but it would need to be implemented in a different way to read_abs() and is not on my short list at the moment. I agree it would be useful, but I don't have time right now.

Thanks again