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FAOSTAT (version 2.2.1)

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database

Description

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. A list of functions to download statistics from FAOSTAT (database of the FAO ) and WDI (database of the World Bank ), and to perform some harmonization operations.

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install.packages('FAOSTAT')

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2.2.1

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GPL (>= 2)

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November 13th, 2020

Functions in FAOSTAT (2.2.1)

FAOSTAT-package

A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Construct year to year change

Construct/Creat new variable.

Search FAOSTAT tables

FAOregionProfile

Regional profile

Absolute change between the year

Compute Aggregates

A function to bind the different entity level.

download_faostat_bulk

Download bulk data from the faostat website http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data

Construct Growth rate

Construct indices

The search tree for FAOSTAT3

Function to translate multipliers

translateCountryCode

A function to translate between different country coding systems

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API.

A function to standardize the unit

Geometric growth rate

This function avoids double counting of China.

FAOcountryProfile

Country profile

fillCountryCode

A function to get country code when not available in data.

World Bank Indicator Metadata

Least squares growth rate

Construct share variable

This function checks whether there are overlapping between the transitional countries.

Function for merging data from different source.

Access to World Bank WDI API

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API

Access to World Bank WDI API

This function perform some check on the data