R/gdpimporterr.R
gdpimporterr.RdDownload the zipped file, unzip, rename the unzipped files, and outputs a data frame along with the title from meta data.
gdpimporterr(url, filename = NULL, filetype = "csv")A character vector with one element: URL to the zip file (ends with .zip)
A character vector with one element: specify
the name of csv data (not the MetaData). If NULL,
'open_canada_data.csv' will be the filename.
This argument is not useful when filetype is set to 'all'
A character vector with one element: the
types of files that will be extracted. If 'csv', only csv
files are extracted'. If 'all', files of all types are extracted
A list whose first element is a data frame and second element is a character with one element
gdpimporterr("https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/tbl/csv/36100400-eng.zip")
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 8,255 × 15
#> REF_DATE GEO DGUID `North America…` UOM UOM_ID SCALAR_FACTOR SCALAR_ID
#> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl>
#> 1 1997 Newfoun… 2016… All industries … Perc… 246 units 0
#> 2 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Goods-producing… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 3 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Service-produci… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 4 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Industrial prod… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 5 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Information and… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 6 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Energy sector [… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 7 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Agriculture, fo… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 8 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Mining, quarryi… Perc… 246 units 0
#> 9 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Utilities [22] Perc… 246 units 0
#> 10 1997 Newfoun… 2016… Construction [2… Perc… 246 units 0
#> # … with 8,245 more rows, and 7 more variables: VECTOR <chr>, COORDINATE <dbl>,
#> # VALUE <dbl>, STATUS <chr>, SYMBOL <lgl>, TERMINATED <lgl>, DECIMALS <dbl>
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by industry, provinces and territories, percentage share"
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