get_eurostat_dic: Download Eurostat Dictionary

In eurostat: Tools for Eurostat Open Data

Download Eurostat Dictionary

Description

Download a Eurostat dictionary.

Usage

get_eurostat_dic(dictname, lang = "en")

Arguments

dictname	A character, dictionary for the variable to be downloaded.
lang	A character, language code. Options: "en" (default), "fr", "de".

Details

For given coded variable from Eurostat https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/. The dictionaries link codes with human-readable labels. To translate codes to labels, use label_eurostat().

Value

tibble with two columns: code names and full names.

Author(s)

Przemyslaw Biecek and Leo Lahti [e-mail]. Thanks to Wietse Dol for contributions. Updated by Pyry Kantanen to support XML codelists.

References

See citation("eurostat"):

# Kindly cite this package by citing the following R Journal article:
# 
#   Lahti L., Huovari J., Kainu M., and Biecek P. (2017). Retrieval and
#   analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package. The R
#   Journal 9(1), pp. 385-392. doi: 10.32614/RJ-2017-019
# 
# In addition, please provide a citation to the specific software version
# used:
# 
#   Lahti L, Huovari J, Kainu M, Biecek P, Hernangomez D, Antal D,
#   Kantanen P (2026). "eurostat: Tools for Eurostat Open Data."
#   doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.eurostat
#   <https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.eurostat>. R package version
#   4.1.1, <https://github.com/rOpenGov/eurostat>.
# 
# To see these entries in BibTeX format, use 'print(<citation>,
# bibtex=TRUE)', 'toBibtex(.)', or set
# 'options(citation.bibtex.max=999)'.

See Also

label_eurostat(), get_eurostat(), search_eurostat().

Examples

get_eurostat_dic("crop_pro")

# Try another language
get_eurostat_dic("crop_pro", lang = "fr")

eurostat documentation built on Sept. 24, 2026, 5:06 p.m.