rUnemploymentData
This R Package contains data and visualization functions for USA unemployment data. The data was scraped from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in January 2015. The functions which scraped the data are also in this package, which allows you to reproduce and verify the dataset yourself.
Installation
To install the package from CRAN type:
install.packages("rUnemploymentData")
To install the package from github type:
# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("trulia/rUnemploymentData")
library(rUnemploymentData)
State Unemployment Data
The state unemployment data covers 2000-2013 and is in the data.frame ?df_state_unemployment_data. Further
information can be found in the vignette US State Unemployment Data.
County Unemployment Data
The county unemployment data covers 1990-2013 and is in the data.frame ?df_county_unemployment_data. Further
information can be found in the vignette US County Unemployment Data.
Reproducibility
The data in this package was scraped from the BLS website on January 4, 2014. The scripts which scraped the data are available in get_state_unemployment_df and get_county_unemployment_df.