ct_compare: Compare Countries

In comtrade: Access and Analyse UN Comtrade International Trade Data

Compare Countries

Description

Compare multiple countries' trade in a given commodity, showing exports, imports, balance, and revealed comparative advantage.

Usage

ct_compare(reporters, commodity = "TOTAL", year = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

reporters	Character vector. ISO3 codes for countries to compare.
commodity	Character. Commodity code. Default "TOTAL".
year	Integer. Year to query.
cache	Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame with columns: reporter, reporter_desc, exports, imports, balance, rca.

Examples

op <- options(comtrade.cache_dir = tempdir())
ct_compare(c("GBR", "DEU", "FRA"), commodity = "87", year = 2023)
options(op)

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