search_eurostat: Grep Datasets Titles from Eurostat

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Grep Datasets Titles from Eurostat

Description

Lists names of dataset from eurostat with the particular pattern in the description.

Usage

search_eurostat(pattern, type = "dataset", fixed = TRUE)

grepEurostatTOC(pattern, type = "dataset")

Arguments

pattern	Character, datasets, folder or tables with this pattern in the description will be returned (depending on the 'type' argument)
type	Grep the Eurostat table of contents either for 'dataset' (default), 'folder', 'table' or "all" (for all types).
fixed	logical. If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Change to FALSE if more complex regex matching is needed.

Details

Downloads list of all datasets available on eurostat and return list of names of datasets that contains particular pattern in the dataset description. E.g. all datasets related to education of teaching.

Value

A tibble with eight columns

• title: The name of dataset of theme

  • code: The codename of dataset of theme, will be used by the get_eurostat() and get_eurostat_raw() functions.

  • type: Is it a dataset, folder or table.

  • last.update.of.data, last.table.structure.change, data.start, data.end: Dates.

Functions

• grepEurostatTOC(): Old deprecated version

Author(s)

Przemyslaw Biecek and Leo Lahti [e-mail]

References

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},
#   }

See Also

get_eurostat(), get_eurostat_toc()

Examples

tmp <- search_eurostat("education")
head(tmp)
# Use "fixed = TRUE" when pattern has characters that would need escaping.
# Here, parentheses would normally need to be escaped in regex
tmp <- search_eurostat("Live births (total) by NUTS 3 region", fixed = TRUE)

eurostat documentation built on March 7, 2023, 5:39 p.m.