32 Canada-related Open source R codes and packages

32.1 Packages

32.1.1 Packages on CRAN

One can go to https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/ to search and explore packages.

Install them from Tools-> Install Packages in RStudio, or directly using the line below:

install.packages('cansim') `

32.1.1.1 rgovcan - Easy Access to the Canadian Open Government Portal

https://github.com/open-canada/rgovcan

A R package to interact with the Open Canada API (see https://open.canada.ca/en/access-our-application-programming-interface-api), to search and download datasets (see Licence at https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). It is our hope that we will be able to bring this package up to the standard of a ropensci packages (see this issue on ropensci/wishlist https://github.com/ropensci/wishlist/issues/27).

This package makes extensive use of ckanr to access the Canadian government’s CKAN REST API.

library("rgovcan")
dfo_search <- govcan_search(keywords = c("dfo"), records = 10)
dfo_search

# Another possibility is to start with a package id corresponding to an actual record 
id <- "7ac5fe02-308d-4fff-b805-80194f8ddeb4" # Package ID
id_search <- govcan_get_record(record_id = id)
id_search
id_resources <- govcan_get_resources(id_search)
id_resources
dfo_resources <- govcan_get_resources(dfo_search)

path <- "tmp/data/"
dir.create(path, recursive = TRUE)
govcan_dl_resources(id_resources, path = path)

32.1.1.2 CANSIM2R - Directly Extracts Complete CANSIM Data Tables

Extract CANSIM (Statistics Canada) tables and transform them into readily usable data in panel (wide) format. It can also extract more than one table at a time and produce the resulting merge by time period and geographical region.

32.1.1.3 cansim - Accessing Statistics Canada Data Table and Vectors

https://github.com/mountainMath/cansim

Searches for, accesses, and retrieves new-format and old-format Statistics Canada data tables, as well as individual vectors, as tidy data frames. This package deals with encoding issues, allows for bilingual English or French language data retrieval, and bundles convenience functions to make it easier to work with retrieved table data. Optional caching features are provided.

32.1.1.4 cancensus

https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus

32.1.1.5 https://github.com/mountainMath/tongfen

32.1.1.6 https://github.com/mountainMath/statcanXtabs

32.1.1.7 https://github.com/warint/statcanR

statcanR

Easily connect to Statistics Canada’s Web Data Service with R. Open economic data (formerly known as CANSIM tables, now identified by Product IDs (PID)) are accessible as a data frame, directly in the user’s R environment.

32.1.1.8 install.packages(‘canadamaps’)

Terrestrial maps with simplified topologies for Census Divisions, Agricultural Regions, Economic Regions, Federal Electoral Divisions and Provinces.

32.2 Packages not on CRAN

32.2.0.1 https://github.com/VLucet/rgovcan

rgovcan Easy access to the Canadian Open Government Portal

32.2.0.2 https://github.com/bcgov/canwqdata

canwqdata An R package to download open water quality data from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s National Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data.

32.3 Codes on GitHub

32.3.1 Expenditures and procurement

32.3.1.1 https://github.com/nmarum/canadadefencespending

Data wrangling and exploratory analysis of publicly available data about National Defence expenditures and defence procurement.

32.3.2 Health and Environment

32.3.2.1 https://github.com/dbuijs/HealthCanadaOpenData

A project for importing open data from Health Canada’s website into R.

32.3.3 Elections

32.3.3.1 2019 Canadian election forecast

32.3.3.2 https://github.com/thisismactan/Canada-2019

This is the repository for the Election StatSheet 2019 Canadian election forecast.

32.3.3.3 2015 Canadian Election Data

https://github.com/lchski/canada-2015-federal-election-data

32.3.3.4 https://github.com/lchski/canada-2015-federal-election-data

2015 Canadian Election Data

32.3.3.5 FPTP Election Strategizer

“FPTP Election Strategizer: A data-science driven tool to mitigate the political biases of the First Past The Post electoral system in Canada” - Research article, with R code and visualizations in support of Fair Vote Canada

https://github.com/ivi-m/election-strategizer/

32.3.4 Ottawa

32.3.4.1 https://github.com/whipson/Ottawa_Bicycles

Data and cleaning scripts for Ottawa Bicycle Counter shiny app.

32.3.4.2 https://github.com/lchski/ottawa-fire-stations

Mapping Ottawa’s fire stations

32.3.5 Vancouver

Many codes, packages, and blogs related to Vancouver and Canada, and other utility functions, are developed by
MountainMath (Jens von Bergman) - Source: https://github.com/mountainMath