Download data sets from Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/.
get_eurostat(
id,
time_format = "date",
filters = "none",
type = "code",
select_time = NULL,
cache = TRUE,
update_cache = FALSE,
cache_dir = NULL,
compress_file = TRUE,
stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
keepFlags = FALSE,
...
)A code name for the dataset of interest.
See search_eurostat() or details for how to get code.
a string giving a type of the conversion of the time
column from the eurostat format. A "date" (default) converts to
a Date() with a first date of the period.
A "date_last" converts to a Date() with
a last date of the period. A "num" converts to a numeric and "raw"
does not do conversion. See eurotime2date() and
eurotime2num().
a "none" (default) to get a whole dataset or a named list of
filters to get just part of the table. Names of list objects are
Eurostat variable codes and values are vectors of observation codes.
If NULL the whole
dataset is returned via API. More on details. See more on filters and
limitations per query via API from for
get_eurostat_json().
A type of variables, "code" (default) or "label".
a character symbol for a time frequency or NULL,
which is used by default as most datasets have just one time
frequency. For datasets with multiple time
frequencies, select the desired time format with:
Y = annual, S = semi-annual, Q = quarterly, M = monthly.
For all frequencies in same data frame time_format = "raw"
should be used.
a logical whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. Affects
only queries from the bulk download facility.
a logical whether to update cache. Can be set also with options(eurostat_update = TRUE)
a path to a cache directory. The directory must exist.
The NULL (default) uses and creates
'eurostat' directory in the temporary directory from
tempdir(). The directory can also be set with
set_eurostat_cache_dir().
a logical whether to compress the
RDS-file in caching. Default is TRUE.
if TRUE (the default) variables are
converted to factors in original Eurostat order. If FALSE
they are returned as a character.
a logical whether the flags (e.g. "confidential",
"provisional") should be kept in a separate column or if they
can be removed. Default is FALSE. For flag values see:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database/information.
Also possible non-real zero "0n" is indicated in flags column.
Flags are not available for eurostat API, so keepFlags
can not be used with a filters.
Arguments passed on to get_eurostat_json
langA language used for metadata (en/fr/de).
a tibble. One column for each dimension in the data,
the time column for a time dimension and
the values column for numerical values.
Eurostat data does not include all missing values and a treatment of
missing values depend on source. In bulk download
facility missing values are dropped if all dimensions are missing
on particular time. In JSON API missing values are dropped
only if all dimensions are missing on all times. The data from
bulk download facility can be completed for example with
tidyr::complete().
Data sets are downloaded from
the Eurostat bulk download facility or from The Eurostat Web Services
JSON API.
If only the table id is given, the whole table is downloaded from the
bulk download facility. If also filters are defined the JSON API is
used.
The bulk download facility is the fastest method to download whole datasets.
It is also often the only way as the JSON API has limitation of maximum
50 sub-indicators at time and whole datasets usually exceeds that. Also,
it seems that multi frequency datasets can only be retrieved via
bulk download facility and the select_time is not available for
JSON API method.
If your connection is thru a proxy, you probably have to set proxy parameters
to use JSON API, see get_eurostat_json().
By default datasets from the bulk download facility are cached as they are
often rather large. Caching is not (currently) possible for datasets from
JSON API.
Cache files are stored in a temporary directory by default or in
a named directory (See set_eurostat_cache_dir()).
The cache can be emptied with clean_eurostat_cache().
The id, a code, for the dataset can be searched with
the search_eurostat() or from the Eurostat database
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database. The Eurostat
database gives codes in the Data Navigation Tree after every dataset
in parenthesis.
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},
# }
# NOT RUN {
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc")
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc", time_format = "num")
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc", update_cache = TRUE)
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc",
cache_dir = file.path(tempdir(), "r_cache")
)
options(eurostat_update = TRUE)
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc")
options(eurostat_update = FALSE)
set_eurostat_cache_dir(file.path(tempdir(), "r_cache2"))
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc")
k <- get_eurostat("nama_10_lp_ulc", cache = FALSE)
k <- get_eurostat("avia_gonc", select_time = "Y", cache = FALSE)
# }
# NOT RUN {
dd <- get_eurostat("nama_10_gdp",
filters = list(
geo = "FI",
na_item = "B1GQ",
unit = "CLV_I10"
)
)
# }
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