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In eamoakohene/onsR2: Download Official data from UK Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Description

The ONS publishes data in either dataset format or refernce table format. The dataset format can be dowload as csv but need to know the 4-letter code of the series and the specific dataset the series reside. The package has 19000 4-letter codes together with their corresponding dataset and other meta information. Once a code is specified, the function lookup the corrending dataset and download the series directly from ONS website.

Usage

  download(code, format = "ts")

Arguments

code	4-letter code for the time series
format	The format in which the data is returned(ts=time series, df= dataframe)

Value

title	description of time series
m_data	monthly time series (or data frame if format='df') data if available or NULL
q_data	quarterly time series (or data frame if format='df') data if available or NULL
y_data	yearly time series (or data frame if format='df') data if available or NULL

Author(s)

E Amoakohene ([e-mail])

Examples

  #  download("ABMI")             #downloads GDP data in ts-format
  #  download("ABMI",format="df") #downloads GDP data in data frame format
  #  download("CHAY")             #downloads the RPI index

 

eamoakohene/onsR2 documentation built on May 17, 2021, 5:10 p.m.