cancensus
- Access, retrieve, and work with Canadian Census data and geography.
- Download data and Census geography in tidy and analysis-ready format
- Convenience tools for searching for and working with Census regions and variable hierarchies
- Provides Census geography in multiple R spatial formats
- Provides data and geography at multiple Census geographic levels including province, Census Metropolitan Area, Census Division, Census Subdividision, Census Tract, and Dissemination Areas
- Provides up-to-date data for the 2016, 2011, 2006, and 2001 Censuses
cansim
An R package to retrieve and work with public Statistics Canada data tables. This package is designed to:
- Search for and retrieve data tables and series from Statistics Canada’s socioeconomic data repository (previously known as CANSIM)
- Prepare retrieved data tables as analysis-ready tidy data frames
- Work with legacy CANSIM table catalogue numbers
- Offer bilingual data retrieval
- Caching of downloaded data for faster loading and less waiting
- Provide convenience functions for relabelling and rescaling as well as tools for working with data hierarchies in downloaded table objects
airportr
A package to work with open source airport data with tools to look up information, translate names and codes into other formats, as well as some basic calculation functions for measuring distances.
Other
EveryCityCanada
A hackathon project to create a tweetbot that sends out a data visualization card for every city in Canada based on the 2016 Census data.