usdarnass

An alternative for downloading various USDA data from https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/ through R. You must sign up for an API key from the mentioned website in order for this package to work. Disclaimer:

This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

Install

Thsi package is now on CRAN and can be installed through the typical method:

install.packages("usdarnass")

Alternatively, the most up-to-date version of the package can be installed with the devtools package. However, beware that this will be a development version:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rdinter/usdarnass")

Once installed through either method, you can load package the conventional way:

library("usdarnass")

Usage

See the Get started article for a more in depth discussion of the package features.

Documentation

See the documentation site.

See Also

There are other R packages that work with USDA Quick Stats that may be more useful to others:

• emraher/rnass
• potterzot/rnassqs

If you are interested in download all of the Quick Stats data to your local machine, then their FTP site is the best option for downloading all.