edfinr: Access Tidy Education Finance Data

Provides easy access to tidy education finance data using Bellwether's methodology to combine NCES F-33 Survey, Census Bureau Small Area Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and community data from the ACS 5-Year Estimates. The package simplifies downloading, caching, and filtering education finance data by year and state, enabling researchers and analysts to explore K-12 education funding patterns, revenue sources, expenditure categories, and demographic factors across U.S. school districts.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, dplyr, rlang, tibble
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, scales, stringr, tidyr
Published: 2025-08-26
Author: Alex Spurrier [aut, cre], Krista Kaput [aut], Michael Chrzan [ctb], Bellwether [cph]
Maintainer: Alex Spurrier <alex.spurrier at bellwether.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/bellwetherorg/edfinr/issues
License: CC BY 4.0
URL: https://github.com/bellwetherorg/edfinr, https://bellwetherorg.github.io/edfinr/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: edfinr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: edfinr.html , edfinr.pdf
Vignettes: Basic usage of edfinr (source, R code)
Understanding CPI Adjustments in edfinr (source, R code)
Data Sources and Methods (source)

Downloads:

Package source: edfinr_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): edfinr_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): edfinr_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): edfinr_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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