readaec: Access Australian Electoral Commission Data

Provides clean, tidy access to Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) federal election data. Includes results for the House of Representatives and Senate from 2007 onwards, at both division and polling place level. Data is downloaded directly from the AEC <https://results.aec.gov.au> on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls.

Version: 0.1.1
Imports: httr2, readr, dplyr, cli, rappdirs, glue
Suggests: ggplot2, purrr, tidyr, sf, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-03-10
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.readaec (may not be active yet)
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/readaec/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/readaec
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-AU
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: readaec results

Documentation:

Reference manual: readaec.html , readaec.pdf
Vignettes: Case study: Richmond electorate (2001–2025) (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: readaec_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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