ons: Download Data from the Office for National Statistics

Provides functions to download and tidy statistical data published by the Office for National Statistics <https://www.ons.gov.uk>. Covers GDP, inflation (CPI, CPIH, RPI), unemployment, employment, wages, trade, retail sales, house prices, productivity, population, and public sector finances. Most series are fetched from the ONS website using its CSV time series endpoint. House price data is sourced from HM Land Registry <https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry>. Data is cached locally between sessions.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.6.0), httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), tools
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-03-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ons (may not be active yet)
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ons/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/ons
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ons results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ons.html , ons.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: ons_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: ons_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ons_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ons_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ons_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ons_0.1.0.tgz

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