Downloads and parses the official O*NET Longitudinal Data Updates workbook,
which records which occupations were re-rated in each data collection stream.
Use it as ground truth alongside the change classification from
onet_panel_reconcile(): a real_update row for an occupation the official
record says was not re-rated deserves scrutiny, and vice versa.
Value
A tibble with data_update_type, onet_soc_code, title, and the
normalized columns published in the workbook, such as
number_of_updates_as_of_08_2025, current_date, current_database, and
previous update date/database columns.
Details
The current workbook contains separate sheets for Incumbent or OE updates,
Abilities Analyst updates, and Skills Analyst updates. onet_data_updates()
combines those sheets and preserves the sheet label in data_update_type.
O*NET restates historical update counts against the current O*NET-SOC
2019 taxonomy, so per-cycle counts are not comparable across taxonomy
versions without bridging; see onet_crosswalk_bridge().
The file is cached under tools::R_user_dir("onet2r", "cache") in the
reference section; clear it with onet_cache_clear(what = "reference").
Examples
if (interactive()) {
updates <- onet_data_updates()
head(updates)
}