Search Statistics Canada data tables

Searches the catalogue of tables published through Statistics Canada's Web Data Service (WDS). The catalogue is cached for 24 hours in the user's cache directory. If WDS is temporarily unavailable, the most recent valid cache is used.

Usage

statcan_search(keywords, lang = c("eng", "fra"), refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

keywords

Character vector of words that must appear in the table title. Matching is case-insensitive.

lang

Language of the returned titles: "eng" or "fra".

refresh

Logical; if TRUE, ignore a fresh cache and request the catalogue from WDS.

Value

A DT::datatable containing matching table titles, Product IDs, release dates, and language.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
statcan_search(c("economy", "export"), "eng")
statcan_search("population", "fra")
} # }