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title: 'read.abares: Read Australian Agricultural Data from Government Agencies'
version: 2.0.1
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.read.abares
abstract: 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:
- family-names: Sparks
  given-names: Adam H.
  email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'read.abares: Read Data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
    Economics and Sciences (ABARES) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sparks
    given-names: Adam H.
    email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 2.0.1
  url: https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://codeberg.org/ropensci/read.abares
commit: 38a71879343a14774a707f7cf4f22a3663f9f6b3
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/read.abares/
date-released: '2026-02-28'
contact:
- family-names: Sparks
  given-names: Adam H.
  email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359