eurostat R package

R tools to access open data from Eurostat. Data search, download, manipulation and visualization.

Installation and use

Install stable version from CRAN:

install.packages("eurostat")

Alternatively, install development version from GitHub:

# Install from GitHub
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ropengov/eurostat")

Development version can be also installed using the r-universe:

# Enable this universe
options(repos = c(
  ropengov = "https://ropengov.r-universe.dev",
  CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org"
))

install.packages("eurostat")

The package provides several different ways to get datasets from Eurostat. Searching for data is one way, if you know what to look for.

# Load the package
library(eurostat)

# Perform a simple search and print a table
passengers <- search_eurostat("passenger transport")
knitr::kable(head(passengers))

See the Tutorial and other resources at the package homepage for more information and examples.

Recommended packages

It is recommended to install the giscoR package (https://dieghernan.github.io/giscoR/). This is another API package that provides R tools for Eurostat geographic data to support geospatial analysis and visualization.

Contribute

Contributions are very welcome:

• Use issue tracker for feedback and bug reports.
• Send pull requests
• Star us on the Github page
• Join the discussion in Gitter

Acknowledgements

Kindly cite this package as follows: Leo Lahti, Przemyslaw Biecek, Markus Kainu and Janne Huovari. Retrieval and analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package. R Journal 9(1):385-392, 2017. R package version 3.7.10. DOI: 10.32614/RJ-2017-019. URL: https://ropengov.github.io/eurostat/

We are grateful to all contributors, including Daniel Antal, Joona Lehtomäki, Francois Briatte, and Oliver Reiter, and for the Eurostat open data portal! This project is part of rOpenGov.

Disclaimer

This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Eurostat.

When using data retrieved from Eurostat database in your work, please indicate that the data source is Eurostat. If your re-use involves some kind of modification to data or text, please state this clearly to the end user. See Eurostat policy on copyright and free re-use of data for more detailed information and certain exceptions.