Retrieve a Statistics Canada data table URL given a table number

Retrieve URL of a table from the API given a table number. Offers a more stable approach than manually guessing the URL of the table.

Usage

get_cansim_table_url(cansimTableNumber, language = "english")

Arguments

cansimTableNumber: the NDM table number to load
language: "english" (the default) or "french". Short forms such as "en", "eng", "fr" or "fra" are accepted, as are the French names "anglais" and "francais"; case and accents are ignored

Value

String object containing URL for specified table number

Returns NULL if the data could not be retrieved because StatCan is unavailable.

Examples

# \donttest{
get_cansim_table_url("34-10-0013")
#> [1] "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/tbl/csv/34100013-eng.zip"
get_cansim_table_url("34-10-0013", language = "fr")
#> [1] "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/tbl/csv/34100013-fra.zip"
# }