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Retrieve and Read Quality of Government Institute data in R

Source: R/read_qog.R
read_qog.Rd

Download data from Quality of Government Institute Basic data at http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/data/

Usage

read_qog(
  which_data = "basic",
  data_type = "time-series",
  year = 2023,
  data_dir = NULL,
  file_format = "csv",
  download_only = FALSE,
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE
)

Arguments

which_data

A string. Specify the name of the QoG data set to retrieve. Currently available "basic", "standard", "oecd" or "social_policy".

data_type

A string. Specify whether you want cross-sectional or time-series QoG data set to retrieve. Currently available "cross-sectional" or "time-series".

year

numeric. Specify the year of the dataset. Year refers to the publication year of the dataset not the year of a particular data point. Default 2019

data_dir

a path to a cache directory. The directory have to exist. The NULL (default) uses and creates 'rqog' directory in the temporary directory from tempdir.

file_format

A string. Specify the file format you want to download and import. Currently available "csv","dta", "sav" or "xlsx".

download_only

a logical whether to only download and save the dataset and skip importing in R. Default is FALSE.

cache

a logical whether to do caching. Default is TRUE.

update_cache

a locigal whether to update cache. Default is FALSE.

Value

data.frame

Author

Markus Kainu <markus.kainu(at)kapsi.fi>

Examples

# dat <- read_qog(which_data = "basic", year = 2019, data_dir="data")