statcanR: Client for Statistics Canada's Open Economic Data

Provides an R client for Statistics Canada's Web Data Service. Users can describe the data they need in natural language, search the official table catalogue, and download complete data tables in English or French as data frames. Tables formerly known as CANSIM tables are identified by Product IDs. Warin (2024) <doi:10.5070/T5.1868>.

Version:	0.3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports:	data.table, jsonlite, DT, httr
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-07-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.statcanR
Author:	Thierry Warin [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Thierry Warin <thierry.warin at hec.ca>
BugReports:	https://github.com/warint/statcanR/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://warint.github.io/statcanR/, https://github.com/warint/statcanR
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	statcanR citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
In views:	OfficialStatistics
CRAN checks:	statcanR results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	statcanR.html , statcanR.pdf
Vignettes:	Getting started with statcanR (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	statcanR_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: statcanR_0.3.0.zip, r-release: statcanR_0.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: statcanR_0.3.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): statcanR_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): statcanR_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): statcanR_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): statcanR_0.3.0.tgz
Old sources:	statcanR archive

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