nationwider

The goal of {nationwider} is to provide house price data from <nationwide.co.uk>. All datasets available have been curated using tidytools and returned in a convenient rectangular tidy format.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kvasilopoulos/nationwider")

Example

This is a basic example on how to download data with {nationwider}.

library(nationwider)

np <- nationwider::ntwd_get("new_prop")
np
#> # A tibble: 5,320 x 4
#>    Date       region type   value
#>    <date>     <chr>  <chr>  <dbl>
#>  1 1973-10-01 North  Price 13528.
#>  2 1974-01-01 North  Price 13928.
#>  3 1974-04-01 North  Price 14119.
#>  4 1974-07-01 North  Price 13624.
#>  5 1974-10-01 North  Price 14838.
#>  6 1975-01-01 North  Price 14966.
#>  7 1975-04-01 North  Price 15716.
#>  8 1975-07-01 North  Price 16084.
#>  9 1975-10-01 North  Price 17569.
#> 10 1976-01-01 North  Price 18096.
#> # ... with 5,310 more rows

We reshape our data from the initial form into a wider form.

library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(tidyr)

np %>% 
  dplyr::filter(type == "Price") %>% 
  spread(region,value)
#> # A tibble: 190 x 16
#>    Date       type  `East Anglia` `East Mids` London `N Ireland`  North `North West`
#>    <date>     <chr>         <dbl>       <dbl>  <dbl>       <dbl>  <dbl>        <dbl>
#>  1 1973-10-01 Price         9375.       8860. 11780.      13598. 13528.       10058.
#>  2 1974-01-01 Price         9275.       8879. 11827.      15334. 13928.       10438.
#>  3 1974-04-01 Price         9549.       8967. 12077.      15931. 14119.       10503.
#>  4 1974-07-01 Price         9494.       8850. 12390.      16889. 13624.       10514.
#>  5 1974-10-01 Price         9531.       8937. 12265.      17522. 14838.       10721.
#>  6 1975-01-01 Price         9779.       9054. 12234.      18209. 14966.       10797.
#>  7 1975-04-01 Price         9953.       9539. 12468.      19548. 15716.       11144.
#>  8 1975-07-01 Price         9907.       9617. 12843.      20578. 16084.       11394.
#>  9 1975-10-01 Price        10393.       9762. 13273.      22622. 17569.       11807.
#> 10 1976-01-01 Price        10438.       9985. 13187.      23761. 18096.       12220.
#> # ... with 180 more rows, and 8 more variables: Outer Met <dbl>, Outer S East <dbl>,
#> #   Scotland <dbl>, South West <dbl>, Uk <dbl>, Wales <dbl>, West Mids <dbl>,
#> #   Yorks & Hside <dbl>

Here we are plotting all regions using type Index and Price as facets.

library(ggplot2)
np %>% 
  ggplot(aes(Date, value, col = region)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~ type, scales = "free")