Read ABS geographic data as sf objects from the [absmapsdata](https://github.com/wfmackey/absmapsdata) package.
Arguments
- name
a character string containing absmapsdata file names in [
area
][year
] format, eg "sa42016"; "gcc2021". See full list at https://github.com/wfmackey/absmapsdata. Note: ifname
is entered, thenarea
andyear
values will be ignored.- area
a character string containing the concise absmapsdata area names, eg "sa4"; "gcc". See full list at https://github.com/wfmackey/absmapsdata.
- year
a character string or numeric of the full source year of absmapsdata object, eg "2016"; 2021. See full list at https://github.com/wfmackey/absmapsdata.
- remove_year_suffix
logical defaulting to FALSE. If TRUE, `strip_year_suffix` is run before returning the object, removing the `_year` suffix from variable names.
- export_dir
path to a directory to store the desired sf object.
tempdir()
by default.- .validate_name
logical defaulting to TRUE, which checks the name input (or area year combination) against a list of available objects in the
absmapsdata
package.