Separate the series column in a tidy ABS time series data frame

Separate the 'series' column in a data frame (tibble) downloaded using read_abs() into multiple columns using the ";" separator.

separate_series(
  data,
  column_names = NULL,
  remove_totals = FALSE,
  remove_nas = FALSE
)

Arguments

data: A data frame (tibble) containing tidied data from the ABS time series table(s).
column_names: (optional) character vector. Supply a vector of column names, such as c("group_name", "variable","gender"). If not supplied, columns will be named "series_1" etc.
remove_totals: logical. FALSE by default. If set to TRUE, any series rows that contain the word "total" will be removed.
remove_nas: locical. FALSE by default. If set to TRUE, any rows containining an NA in at least one of the separated series columns will be removed.

A data frame (tibble) containing the tidied data from the ABS time series table(s).

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
wpi <- read_abs("6345.0", 1) %>%
  separate_series()
} # }