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Get CBIC steel data (prices and production)

get_cbic_steel.Rd

Complete workflow to get cleaned steel price and production data from CBIC. Returns steel price data by default, or all datasets when requested.

Usage

get_cbic_steel(
  table = "prices",
  cached = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  max_retries = 3L
)

Arguments

table

Character. Which dataset to return: "prices", "production", or "all" (default: "prices")

cached

Logical. If TRUE, try to load data from cache first (default: FALSE)

quiet

Logical. If TRUE, suppress progress messages (default: FALSE)

max_retries

Integer. Maximum number of retry attempts for downloads (default: 3L)

Value

A tibble with steel data, or a list if table = "all"

Progress Reporting

When quiet = FALSE, the function provides detailed progress information about web scraping, file downloads, and data processing steps.

Error Handling

The function includes retry logic for failed downloads and robust error handling for malformed Excel files.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get steel prices (default)
prices <- get_cbic_steel()

# Get all steel datasets
all_steel <- get_cbic_steel(table = "all")

# Get production data with progress reporting
production <- get_cbic_steel(table = "production", quiet = FALSE)
} # }