cmhc

API wrapper for extracting CMHC data out of the CMHC Housing Market Information Portal.

Reference

Documentation is available on the GitHub pages.

The example vignettes contain some common use cases.

Installation

remotes::install_github("mountainmath/cmhc")

Usage

Consult the example vignette for more information. As an example, this is how to extract time series information for vacancy rate data by bedroom type for the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (“59933”).

library(cmhc)
vacancy_data <- get_cmhc(survey="Rms",series="Vacancy Rate",dimension="Bedroom Type",
                         breakdown="Historical Time Periods",  geo_uid="59933")

Contributing

We encourage contributions to improve this project. The best way is through issues and pull requests.
If you want to get in touch, we are pretty good at responding via email or via twitter at @vb_jens.

Cite cmhc

If you wish to cite cmhc:

von Bergmann, J. cmhc: R package to access, retrieve, and work with CMHC data. v0.2.0.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    author = {Jens {von Bergmann}},
    title = {cmhc: R package to access, retrieve, and work with CMHC data},
    year = {2022},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://mountainmath.github.io/cmhc/},
  }