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read.abares: Read Data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Download and import agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) <https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares> and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) <https://www.abs.gov.au>. Data types serviced include spreadsheets, comma separated value (CSV) files, geospatial data including shape files and geotiffs covering topics including broadacre crops, livestock, soil data, commodities and more. Unifies field names and formats for data interoperability making analysis easier by standardising names between data formats. Also simplifies importing geospatial data as well as correcting issues in the geospatial data upon import.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: brio, cli, data.table, fs, htm2txt, httr2, lubridate, purrr, readxl, rlang, sf, stars, stringr, terra, tidync, utils, whoami, withr
Suggests: bit64, knitr, openxlsx, pander, rmarkdown, roxyglobals, skimr, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), zip
Published: 2026-01-22
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.read.abares (may not be active yet)
Author: Adam H. Sparks ORCID iD [cre, aut], Curtin University ROR ID [fnd, cph] (http://www.curtin.edu.au/), Grains Research and Development Corporation ROR ID [fnd, cph] (Project: GRDC Project CUR2210-005OPX (AAGI-CU)), Jacob Wujciak-Jens ORCID iD [ctb] (Assisted with troubleshooting formatting in documentation to display '<' and '>' properly), Nicholas Potter ORCID iD [rev] (rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667), María Paula Caldas ORCID iD [rev] (rOpenSci Review https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667)
Maintainer: Adam H. Sparks <adamhsparks at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares, https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: read.abares citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: read.abares results

Documentation:

Reference manual: read.abares.html , read.abares.pdf
Vignettes: Setting Global Options for read.abares (source, R code)
Working with spatial data available through read.abares (source)

Downloads:

Package source: read.abares_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: read.abares_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: read.abares_2.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): read.abares_2.0.0.tgz

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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