Add lookup tables for catalogue number and series ID

MattCowgill / readabs

Download and tidy time series data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in R

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Add lookup tables for catalogue number and series ID #214

Open MattCowgill opened 2 years ago

xIncubakerx commented 2 years ago

I am not sure if this is helpful or not, but I have built a lookup table for the 6202.0 release that contains all 2946 unique Series IDs with tidied up metadata. I should also add that I am a fairly inexperienced R user, so the code is probably not as elegant as it could be.

MattCowgill commented 2 years ago

Hi @xIncubakerx , sure, please share! This should be straightforward to do with readabs, I just haven't got around to it yet...

xIncubakerx commented 2 years ago

@MattCowgill what is the best way to do this? I'm not really familiar with the workings of github.

It took me quite a while to figure out how to tidy up all of the metadata as the series metadata does not follow a consistent pattern across tables. There are also a whole bunch of Series IDs that are repeated across multiple tables, as well as duplicated data items that are listed under more than one Series ID!