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rUnemploymentData

This R Package contains data and visualization functions for USA unemployment data. The data was scraped from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in January 2015. The functions which scraped the data are also in this package, which allows you to reproduce and verify the dataset yourself.

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install.packages('rUnemploymentData')

Monthly Downloads

30

Version

1.1.0

License

BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Ari Lamstein

Last Published

January 19th, 2017

Functions in rUnemploymentData (1.1.0)

get_county_unemployment_df

Get county level unemployment data from the BLS website
build_state_df

Build the data object ?df_state_unemployment
build_county_df

Build the data object ?df_county_unemployment
get_state_unemployment_df

Get state unemployment data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website
animated_state_unemployment_choropleth

Create an animated choropleth of US State Unemployment Data
state_unemployment_choropleth

Render Choropleth Map of US State Unemployment Rates
df_state_unemployment

A data.frame containing US State Unemployment Rates
df_county_unemployment

A data.frame Containing US County Unemployment Rates
county_unemployment_choropleth

Render a Choropleth Map of US County Unemployment Rates
animated_county_unemployment_choropleth

Create an animated choropleth of US County Unemployment Data