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Download Table of Contents of Eurostat Data Sets

Source: R/get_eurostat_toc.R
get_eurostat_toc.Rd

Download table of contents (TOC) of eurostat datasets.

Usage

get_eurostat_toc()

Value

A tibble with eight columns:

  • title: The name of dataset of theme.

  • code: The codename of dataset of theme, will be used by the get_eurostat() and get_eurostat_raw() functions.

  • type: Is it a dataset, folder or table.

  • last.update.of.data, last.table.structure.change, data.start, data.end: Dates.

Details

The TOC is downloaded from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/estat-navtree-portlet-prod/BulkDownloadListing?sort=1&file=table_of_contents_en.txt. The values in column 'code' should be used to download a selected dataset.

References

See citation("eurostat"):

# 
# Kindly cite the eurostat R package as follows:
# 
#   (C) Leo Lahti, Janne Huovari, Markus Kainu, Przemyslaw Biecek.
#   Retrieval and analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat
#   package. R Journal 9(1):385-392, 2017. doi: 10.32614/RJ-2017-019
#   Package URL: http://ropengov.github.io/eurostat Article URL:
#   https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-019/index.html
# 
# A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
# 
#   @Article{,
#     title = {Retrieval and Analysis of Eurostat Open Data with the eurostat Package},
#     author = {Leo Lahti and Janne Huovari and Markus Kainu and Przemyslaw Biecek},
#     journal = {The R Journal},
#     volume = {9},
#     number = {1},
#     pages = {385--392},
#     year = {2017},
#     doi = {10.32614/RJ-2017-019},
#     url = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-019},
#   }

See also

get_eurostat(), search_eurostat().

Author

Przemyslaw Biecek and Leo Lahti ropengov-forum@googlegroups.com

Examples

# \donttest{
tmp <- get_eurostat_toc()
head(tmp)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 8
#>   title                       code  type  last …¹ last …² data …³ data …⁴ values
#>   <chr>                       <chr> <chr> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr> 
#> 1 Database by themes          data  fold… NA      NA      NA      NA      NA    
#> 2 General and regional stati… gene… fold… NA      NA      NA      NA      NA    
#> 3 European and national indi… euro… fold… NA      NA      NA      NA      NA    
#> 4 Balance of payments         ei_bp fold… NA      NA      NA      NA      NA    
#> 5 Current account - quarterl… ei_b… data… 22.02.… 22.02.… 1992Q1  2022Q4  NA    
#> 6 Financial account - quarte… ei_b… data… 17.02.… 17.02.… 1992Q1  2022Q4  NA    
#> # … with abbreviated variable names ¹​`last update of data`,
#> #   ²​`last table structure change`, ³​`data start`, ⁴​`data end`
# }