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FAOSTAT (version 2.2.4)

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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2.2.4

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GPL (>= 2)

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Last Published

February 14th, 2023

Functions in FAOSTAT (2.2.4)

Access to World Bank WDI API

Least squares growth rate

A function to standardize the unit

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

translateCountryCode

A function to translate between different country coding systems

Function to translate multipliers

download_faostat_bulk

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

Function for merging data from different source.

Construct share variable

Construct Growth rate

Construct indices

This function perform some check on the data

Absolute change between the year

Construct year to year change

FAOregionProfile

Regional profile

This function avoids double counting of China.

Search FAOSTAT tables

Compute Aggregates

FAOcountryProfile

Country profile

The search tree for FAOSTAT3

FAOSTAT-package

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

World Bank Indicator Metadata

fillCountryCode

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

Construct/Creat new variable.

Geometric growth rate

A function to bind the different entity level.

Access to World Bank WDI API

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API.

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API