oecd: Download OECD data

In christophergandrud/oecdr: Download and Format OECD Data

Description

Downloads requested data from the OECD's API, parses the download, and returns the data in country-time format

Usage

oecd(country = "all", table = "QASA_TABLE7PSD",
  indicator = "SAFGD.S1311C.CAR.NSA", start = "2000-Q1", end = "2011-Q4",
  extra = FALSE, return_url = FALSE)

Arguments

country	character vector of country names in ISO 3 country code format. The default ('all') downloads data for all available countries.
table	character string identifying the table. Note only one table can be queried at a time.
indicator	character vector of indicator codes for variables in table.
start	first year or quarter to download data for.
end	final year or quarter to download data for.
extra	logical. If TRUE then all information from the download is returned.
return_url	logical. Whether or not to return the URL constructed for the query. Can be useful for debugging your query.

Value

a data frame with (if extra = TRUE) country ISO 3 Letter codes, the time variable and the requested indicators.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Download: Central Governement Currency and Deposits (% GDP) and
#           Total Gross Central Government Debt in current prices
qrt_public_debt <- oecd(indicator = c('SAF2LXT.S1311C.PCTGDPA.NSA',
                     'SAFGD.S1311C.CAR.NSA'))

# Gross domestic product (expenditure approach current prices, millions)
gdp <- oecd(table = 'SNA_TABLE1', indicator = 'B1_GE.CPC',
            start = 2000, end = 2012)

## End(Not run)

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