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message: 'To cite package "publicdataau" in publications use:'
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license: MIT
title: 'publicdataau: Australian Government Open Data from ''publicdata.au'''
version: 0.4.1
abstract: Search, filter, total and download the Australian government open data republished
  at <https://publicdata.au/>, where every version of a dataset is kept at a URL that
  never changes. Rows and totals come from the site's query API as typed, labelled
  'tibble' data frames, and whole tables from its files in any of twelve formats.
  Map layers come as 'sf' objects, and rows that carry the code of an area join to
  the Australian Bureau of Statistics boundaries in one call. The 'DuckDB' file of
  any version can be attached over the web and queried in place with 'DBI' or 'dplyr'.
  Downloads can be kept in a cache, since a version never changes, the changes between
  versions are listed row by row, and the source file, fetch time and checksum of
  every version are on record. Every answer carries the version it came from and the
  attribution the publisher's licence requires, and citations come as 'BibTeX'. Any
  dataset the site serves works by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release.
authors:
- family-names: Young
  given-names: Cameron
  email: cameron@nationaldigital.com.au
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'publicdataau: Australian Government Open Data from ''publicdata.au'''
  authors:
  - family-names: Young
    given-names: Cameron
    email: cameron@nationaldigital.com.au
  institution:
    name: National Digital
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.4.1
  url: https://publicdata.au/
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
commit: e539984758fd666490112b7c8bddf5854d2634f8
url: https://publicdata.au/
date-released: '2026-10-14'
contact:
- family-names: Young
  given-names: Cameron
  email: cameron@nationaldigital.com.au