read.abares: Read Australian Agricultural Data from Government Agencies
Downloads and imports agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) <https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares> and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) <https://www.abs.gov.au>. Supports multiple data formats including spreadsheets, comma‑separated value (CSV) files, and geospatial data such as shapefiles and GeoTIFFs. Covers topics such as broadacre crops, livestock, soils, commodities and related agricultural information. The package standardises field names and data formats to improve interoperability and simplify analysis. It also streamlines the import of geospatial data and corrects common issues found in these data sources upon loading.
| Version: | 3.0.0 |
| 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: | 2026-06-01 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.read.abares |
| Author: | Adam H. Sparks 
[cre, aut],
Curtin University  [cph]
(http://www.curtin.edu.au/),
Jacob Wujciak-Jens
[ctb]
(Assisted with troubleshooting formatting in documentation to
display '<' and '>' properly),
Nicholas Potter
[rev] (rOpenSci Review
https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667),
María Paula Caldas
[rev]
(rOpenSci Review
https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/667) |
| Maintainer: | Adam H. Sparks <adamhsparks at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://codeberg.org/ropensci/read.abares/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/, https://codeberg.org/ropensci/read.abares |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-US |
| Citation: | read.abares citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| In views: | Agriculture |
| 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_3.0.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: read.abares_2.0.0.zip, r-release: read.abares_3.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: read.abares_2.0.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): read.abares_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): read.abares_3.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): read.abares_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): read.abares_3.0.0.tgz |
| Old sources: | read.abares archive |
Linking:
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=read.abares to link to this page.