GitHub - rdinter/usdarnass: An alternative for downloading various USDA data from Quick Stats through R. (original) (raw)
usdarnass
An alternative for downloading various USDA data fromhttps://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/ through R. You must sign up for anAPI key from the mentioned website in order for this package to work. Disclaimer:
This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.
Install
Thsi package is now on CRAN and can be installed through the typical method:
install.packages("usdarnass")
Alternatively, the most up-to-date version of the package can be installed with the devtools
package. However, beware that this will be a development version:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rdinter/usdarnass")
Once installed through either method, you can load package the conventional way:
Usage
See the Get startedarticle for a more in depth discussion of the package features.
Documentation
See the documentation site.
See Also
There are other R
packages that work with USDA Quick Stats that may be more useful to others:
If you are interested in download all of the Quick Stats data to your local machine, then their FTP site is the best option for downloading all.