Eurostat-class: Eurostat web object.
Description
From Eurostat's webpage (see references): You can
download individual datasets or the complete database by
using the bulk download facility. On the bulk download
you will find: all information updated twice a day, at
11:00 and 23:00, (at this time the service is usually not
available, K.W.) the datasets in tsv (tab separated
values) (this is what is used by this R code, K.W.), dft
and sdmx format, which can be easily used to import the
data in a tool of your choice, a manual containing all
detailed information on the bulkdownload facility, the
table of contents that includes the list of the datasets
available, the "dictionaries" of all the coding systems
used in the datasets.
eurostat_data -- creates UrlData object for accessing
Eurostat datasets.
eurostat_dicts -- creates UrlData object for accessing
Eurostat "dictionaries", i.e. a description of
indicators.
eurostat_toc -- creates UrlData object for accessing
Eurostat "table of contents", i.e. a description of
datasets.Usage
eurostat_data()
eurostat_dicts()
eurostat_toc()
eurostat_web()
Value
- an object of class Mashup
Details
The eurostat_web() function returns a data object with
three methods, "EurostatToc" which returns a data.frame
of available datasets, "EurostatDicts" which returns a
large data.frame of codes, "EurostatData" which returns
the dataset for a given code.References
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/