search_eurostat_toc: Search for pattern in the titles, units and short description...

In restatapi: Search and Retrieve Data from Eurostat Database

Search for pattern in the titles, units and short description of the TOC

Description

Lists names of dataset from Eurostat with the particular pattern in the title, units or short description.

Usage

search_eurostat_toc(pattern, lang = "en", verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

pattern	Character string to search for in the table of contents of Eurostat tables/datasets
lang	a character string either en, de or fr to define the language version for the table of contents. The default is en - English.
verbose	A boolean with default FALSE, so detailed messages (for debugging) will not printed. Can be set also with options(restatapi_verbose=TRUE)
...	other additional parameters to pass to the grepl function like ignore.case=TRUE if the pattern should be searched case sensitive or not. The default value for ignore.case is FALSE.

Details

Downloads the list of all tables and datasets available in the Eurostat database and returns all the details from the table of contents of the tables/datasets that contains particular pattern in the dataset title, unit or short description. E.g. all tables/datasets mentioning 'energy'.

Value

A table with the following columns:

title	The name of dataset/table in the language provided by the lang parameter
code	The codename of dataset/table which can be used by the get_eurostat function
type	The type of information: 'dataset' or 'table'
lastUpdate	The date when the data was last time updated for tables and datasets
lastModified	The date when the structure of the dataset/table was last time modified
dataStart	The start date of the data in the dataset/table
dataEnd	The end date of the data in the dataset/table
values	The number of values in the dataset/table
unit	The unit name for tables in the language provided by the lang parameter, if the type 'dataset' this column is empty
shortDescription	The short description of the values for tables in the language provided by the lang parameterif the type 'dataset' this column is empty
metadata.html	The link to the metadata in html format
metadata.sdmx	The link to the metadata in SDMX format
downloadLink.tsv	The link to the whole dataset/table in tab separated values format in the bulk download facility
downloadLink.sdmx	The link to the whole dataset/table in SDMX format in the bulk download facility

The value in the code column can be used as an id in the get_eurostat_data, get_eurostat_bulk, get_eurostat_raw and get_eurostat_dsd functions. If there is no hit for the search query, it returns NULL.

See Also

search_eurostat_dsd, get_eurostat_data, get_eurostat_toc

Examples

options(timeout=2)
head(search_eurostat_toc("energy",verbose=TRUE))
nrow(search_eurostat_toc("energy"))
head(search_eurostat_toc("energie",lang="de",ignore.case=TRUE))
nrow(search_eurostat_toc("energie",lang="de",ignore.case=TRUE))
options(timeout=60)

restatapi documentation built on Sept. 19, 2023, 5:08 p.m.