get_i_stat: Download data sets by id (source: I.Stat)

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Download data sets by id (source: I.Stat)

Description

Download data sets from I.Stat (old ISTAT provider). Alternatively, use get_istatdata to download data sets from IstatData (new ISTAT provider). Note that in this first version of the package, only get_i_stat allows you to download variable labels, while get_istatdata has not this functionality yet. The parameters "id_dataset" to download data sets can be found using list_i_stat function or search_i_stat function.

Usage

get_i_stat(id_dataset,
           start_period=NULL,
           end_period=NULL,
           recent=FALSE,
           csv=FALSE,
           xlsx=FALSE,
           lang="both")

Arguments

id_dataset	data set id
start_period	Time value for the start (NULL by default)
end_period	Time value for the end (NULL bu default)
recent	False by default, if TRUE, the function retrieves data from last 10 years
csv	False by default, if TRUE, the function saves the data set to directory as .csv
xlsx	False by default, if TRUE, the function saves the data set to directory as .xlsx
lang	Language parameter for labels ("ita" for Italian, "eng" for English)

Value

It returns the data set as data.frame. It can be saved to environment or as .csv/.xlsx.

Note

Downloading may take some time. Future versions will speed up the process.

Examples

get_i_stat("12_60")
get_i_stat("12_60", start_period=2015, end_period=2018)
get_i_stat("12_60", start_period=2015, end_period=2015)
get_i_stat("12_60", recent=TRUE, lang="eng")

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