show_available_files {readabs}R Documentation

Helper function to show the files available in a particular catalogue number.

Description

[Experimental] To be used in conjunction with download_abs_data_cube().

This function lists the possible files that are available in a catalogue. The filename (or an unambiguous part of the filename) must be specified as a string as an argument to download_abs_data_cube.

Usage

show_available_files(catalogue_string, refresh = FALSE)

get_available_files(catalogue_string, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

catalogue_string

character string specifying the catalogue, e.g. "labour-force-australia-detailed". You can use show_available_catalogues() see all the possible catalogues, or search_catalogues() to find catalogues that contain a given string.

refresh

logical; FALSE by default. If FALSE, an internal table of the available ABS catalogues is used. If TRUE, this table is refreshed from the ABS website.

Details

get_available_files() is an alias for show_available_files().

Value

A tibble containing the title of the file, the filename and the complete url.

See Also

Other data cube functions: download_abs_data_cube(), search_catalogues(), show_available_catalogues()

Other data cube functions: download_abs_data_cube(), search_catalogues(), show_available_catalogues()

Examples

## Not run: 
show_available_files("labour-force-australia-detailed")

## End(Not run)


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