# plot the data Accessed online: 01 October 2020. api key is in a file, you can use it like this: If you dont want to add the API key to a file or store it in your Accessed online: 01 October 2020. 'OR'). key, you can use it in any of the following ways: In your home directory create or edit the .Renviron R is an open source coding language that was first developed in 1991 primarily for conducting statistical analyses and has since been applied to data visualization, website creation, and much more (Peng 2020; Chambers 2020). In this case, youre wondering about the states with data, so set param = state_alpha. The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. do. returns a list of valid values for the source_desc There are at least two good reasons to do this: Reproducibility. Statistics by State Explore Statistics By Subject Citation Request Most of the information available from this site is within the public domain. The == character combination tells R that this is a logic test for exactly equal, the & character is a logic test for AND, and the != character combination is a logic test for not equal. Texas Crop Progress and Condition (February 2023) USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Southern Plains Regional Field Office Seven Day Observed Regional Precipitation, February 26, 2023. Here are the pairs of parameters and values that it will submit in the API call to retrieve that data: Following is the full encoded URL that the program below creates and sends with the Quick Stats API. To improve data accessibility and sharing, the NASS developed a "Quick Stats" website where you can select and download data from two of the agency's surveys. and rnassqs will detect this when querying data. sum of all counties in a state will not necessarily equal the state Rstudio, you can also use usethis::edit_r_environ to open 2019. A script includes a collection of code that, when taken together, defines a series of steps the coder wants his or her computer to carry out. Harvesting its rich datasets presents opportunities for understanding and growth. time you begin an R session. You do this by using the str_replace_all( ) function. Based on your experience in algebra class, you may remember that if you replace x with NASS_API_KEY and 1 with a string of letters and numbers that defines your unique NASS Quick Stats API key, this is another way to think about the first line of code. You can also make small changes to the script to download new types of data. it. Data are currently available in the following areas: Pre-defined queries are provided for your convenience. Data by subject gives you additional information for a particular subject area or commodity. Plus, in manually selecting and downloading data using the Quick Stats website, you could introduce human error by accidentally clicking the wrong buttons and selecting data that you do not actually want. As mentioned in Section 4, RStudio provides a user-friendly way to interact with R. If this is your first time using a particular R package or if you have forgotten whether you installed an R package, you first need to install it on your computer by downloading it from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (Section 4). However, the NASS also allows programmatic access to these data via an application program interface as described in Section 2. Have a specific question for one of our subject experts? Tip: Click on the images to view full-sized and readable versions. Now you have a dataset that is easier to work with. If you use A&T State University. It is best to start by iterating over years, so that if you Reference to products in this publication is not intended to be an endorsement to the exclusion of others which may have similar uses. The waitstaff and restaurant use that number to keep track of your order and bill (Figure 1). This article will provide you with an overview of the data available on the NASS web pages. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Quickstats can be found on their website. 1987. Title USDA NASS Quick Stats API Version 0.1.0 Description An alternative for downloading various United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) data from <https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/> through R. . To make this query, you will use the nassqs( ) function with the parameters as an input. Once the Instead, you only have to remember that this information is stored inside the variable that you are calling NASS_API_KEY. 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Accessed online: 01 October 2020. Combined with an assert from the To use a restaurant analogy, you can think of the NASS Quick Stats API as the waitstaff at your favorite restaurant, the NASS data servers as the kitchen, the software on your computer as the waitstaffs order notepad, and the coder as the customer (you) as shown in Figure 1. If you are interested in just looking at data from Sampson County, you can use the filter( ) function and define these data as sampson_sweetpotato_data. For example, if someone asked you to add A and B, you would be confused. That file will then be imported into Tableau Public to display visualizations about the data. Alternatively, you can query values RStudio is another open-source software that makes it easier to code in R. The latest version of RStudio is available at the RStudio website. description of the parameter(s) in question: Documentation on all of the parameters is available at https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api#param_define. Your home for data science. Receive Email Notifications for New Publications. A list of the valid values for a given field is available via To submit, please register and login first. queries subset by year if possible, and by geography if not. The following is equivalent, A growing list of convenience functions makes querying simpler. The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is part of the United States Department of Agriculture. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Find more information at the following NC State Extension websites: Publication date: May 27, 2021 sampson_sweetpotato_data <- filter(nc_sweetpotato_data, county_name == "SAMPSON") For most Column or Header Name values, the first value, in lowercase, is the API parameter name, like those shown above. Quick Stats Lite provides a more structured approach to get commonly requested statistics from our online database. This is less easy because you have to enter (or copy-paste) the key each DSFW_Peanuts: Analysis of peanut DSFW from USDA-NASS databases. Accessed: 01 October 2020. They are (1) the Agriculture Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and (2) the Census of Agriculture (CoA). You can check by using the nassqs_param_values( ) function. You know you want commodity_desc = SWEET POTATOES, agg_level_desc = COUNTY, unit_desc = ACRES, domain_desc = TOTAL, statisticcat_desc = "AREA HARVESTED", and prodn_practice_desc = "ALL PRODUCTION PRACTICES". Queries that would return more records return an error and will not continue. For example, we discuss an R package for downloading datasets from the NASS Quick Stats API in Section 6. Before you get started with the Quick Stats API, become familiar with its Terms of Service and Usage. To demonstrate the use of the agricultural data obtained with the Quick Stats API, I have created a simple dashboard in Tableau Public. 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