Package: read.abares 2.0.1

Adam H. Sparks

read.abares: Read Australian Agricultural Data from Government Agencies

Downloads and imports agricultural data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) <https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares> and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) <https://www.abs.gov.au>. Supports multiple data formats including spreadsheets, comma‑separated value (CSV) files, and geospatial data such as shapefiles and GeoTIFFs. Covers topics such as broadacre crops, livestock, soils, commodities and related agricultural information. The package standardises field names and data formats to improve interoperability and simplify analysis. It also streamlines the import of geospatial data and corrects common issues found in these data sources upon loading.

Authors:Adam H. Sparks [cre, aut], Curtin University [fnd, cph], Grains Research and Development Corporation [fnd, cph], Jacob Wujciak-Jens [ctb], Nicholas Potter [rev], María Paula Caldas [rev]

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NEWS

# Install 'read.abares' in R:
install.packages('read.abares', repos = c('https://packages.ropensci.org', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Reviews:rOpenSci Software Review #667

Bug tracker:https://github.com/ropensci/read.abares/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://docs.ropensci.org

On CRAN:

Conda:

agricultureagriculture-dataagriculture-datasetagriculture-trade-dataaustraliadata-retrievalland-use-classificationland-use-dataopen-dataopen-datasets

5.88 score 4 stars 5 scripts 38 exports 64 dependencies

Last updated from:c083389939 (on main). Checks:10 OK. Indexed: yes.

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Exports:activeCatcategoriescatslevelsplotprint_topsoil_thickness_metadataread_aagis_regionsread_abares_traderead_abares_trade_regionsread_abs_broadacre_dataread_abs_horticulture_dataread_abs_livestock_dataread_agfd_dtread_agfd_starsread_agfd_terraread_agfd_tidyncread_clum_commoditiesread_clum_starsread_clum_terraread_est_by_perf_catread_est_by_sizeread_estimates_by_performance_categoryread_estimates_by_sizeread_hist_nat_estread_hist_reg_estread_hist_st_estread_historical_forecastread_historical_forecast_databaseread_historical_national_estimatesread_historical_regional_estimatesread_historical_state_estimatesread_nlum_starsread_nlum_terraread_topsoil_thickness_starsread_topsoil_thickness_terraread.abares_optionsview_clum_metadata_pdfview_nlum_metadata_pdf

Dependencies:abindaskpassbriocellrangerCFtimeclassclassIntclicpp11crayoncurldata.tableDBIdplyre1071forcatsfsgenericsgluehmshtm2txthttrhttr2jsonliteKernSmoothlifecyclelubridatemagrittrMASSmimencdf4ncmetaopensslpillarpkgconfigprettyunitsprogressproxypurrrR6rappdirsRcppreadxlrematchrlangRNetCDFs2sfstarsstringistringrsysterratibbletidynctidyrtidyselecttimechangeunitsutf8vctrswhoamiwithrwk

Setting Global Options for read.abares

Adam H. Sparks

Rendered fromoptions.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jan 23 2026.

Last update: 2025-10-09
Started: 2025-10-09

Working with spatial data available through read.abares

Adam H. Sparks

Rendered fromread.abares.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Jan 23 2026.

Last update: 2025-12-14
Started: 2024-09-29

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Prints the text file Metadata for ABARES' Topsoil Thickness for "Australian Areas of Intensive Agriculture of Layer 1"print_topsoil_thickness_metadata
Read ABARES' "Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey" (AAGIS) Region Mapping Filesread_aagis_regions
Read Data from the ABARES Trade Dashboardread_abares_trade
Read "Trade Data Regions" from the ABARES Trade Dashboardread_abares_trade_regions
Get ABS' Broadacre Crops Production and Value by Australia, State and Territory by Yearread_abs_broadacre_data
Get ABS' Horticulture Crops Production and Value by Australia, State and Territory by Yearread_abs_horticulture_data
Read ABS' Livestock Production and Value by Australia, State and Territory by Yearread_abs_livestock_data
Read ABARES' "Australian Gridded Farm Data" (AGFD) NCDF Files as a data.table Objectread_agfd_dt
Read ABARES' "Australian Gridded Farm Data" (AGFD) NCDF files with starsread_agfd_stars
Read ABARES' "Australian Gridded Farm Data" (AGFD) NCDF Files with terraread_agfd_terra
Read ABARES' "Australian Gridded Farm Data" (AGFD) NCDF Files with tidyncread_agfd_tidync
Read ABARES' Catchment Scale "Land Use of Australia" Commodities Shapefileread_clum_commodities
Read ABARES' Catchment Scale "Land Use of Australia" Data Using Starsread_clum_stars
Read ABARES' Catchment Scale "Land Use of Australia" GeoTIFFs Using terraread_clum_terra
Read ABARES' "Estimates by Performance Category" Dataread_estimates_by_performance_category read_est_by_perf_cat
Read ABARES' "Estimates by Size"read_estimates_by_size read_est_by_size
Read ABARES' "Historical Forecast Database"read_historical_forecast read_historical_forecast_database
Read ABARES' "Historical National Estimates"read_historical_national_estimates read_hist_nat_est
Read ABARES' "Historical Regional Estimates"read_historical_regional_estimates read_hist_reg_est
Read ABARES' "Historical State Estimates"read_historical_state_estimates read_hist_st_est
Read ABARES' National Scale "Land Use of Australia" Data Using starsread_nlum_stars
Read ABARES' National Scale "Land Use of Australia" Data Using terraread_nlum_terra
Read ABARES' "Soil Thickness for Australian Areas of Intensive Agriculture of Layer 1" with starsread_topsoil_thickness_stars
Read ABARES' "Soil Thickness for Australian Areas of Intensive Agriculture of Layer 1" with terraread_topsoil_thickness_terra
Get or Set read.abares Optionsread.abares_options
Displays the PDF Metadata for ABARES' "Catchment Land Use" (CLUM) Raster Files in a Native Viewerview_clum_metadata_pdf
Displays PDF Metadata for ABARES' "National Land Use" (NLUM) Raster Files in a Native Viewerview_nlum_metadata_pdf