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wfmackey / absmapsdata

Use ABS ASGS data easily in R
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size of data, and getting on CRAN #46

Closed dicook closed 3 years ago

dicook commented 3 years ago

Will, you could follow the style of https://github.com/kevinwang09/learningtower to get the package on CRAN. We elected to provide a small data set in the package, and functions to download the full data from GitHub.

wfmackey commented 3 years ago

Thanks @dicook, I think that's a good idea. I recently implemented that approach in the strayr package (see here https://github.com/runapp-aus/strayr/blob/master/R/read_absmaps.R), allowing users to download files from the absmapsdata repo, eg: 

strayr::read_absmaps("sa42021")
strayr::read_absmaps(area = "sa4", year = "2021")

It might be better to keep absmapsdata as is (big, heavy and off CRAN), but try to get strayr on CRAN. What do you think?

dicook commented 3 years ago

I think its good to get strayr on CRAN as a priority, but it doesn't provide maps, right? so there is some benefit of having absmapsdata on CRAN too.

wfmackey commented 3 years ago

strayr does (now) provide access to maps via the strayr::read_absmaps function

dicook commented 3 years ago

Oh, that’s all that is needed then!

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 strayr does (now) provide access to maps via the strayr::read_absmaps function

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