io_dl_wiot: Download IO tables from the WIOD

In okrebs/iotr: Obtain, Tidy and Modify Input-Output Tables For Quantitative Economics

Download IO tables from the WIOD

Description

Function to download the set of world input output tables (wiot) made available by the World Input Output Database's (WIOD) 2016 release. Should usually not be called directly but through io_load_wiot().

Usage

io_dl_wiot(
  cache_dir = NULL,
  url = paste0("https://dataverse.nl/api/access/datafile/199101"),
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

cache_dir	path to cache the WIOD data. If the full content of the WIOD data zip file is found under this location it will not be downloaded again.
url	url to download the WIOD from. This should usually not be changed.
quiet	if TRUE will try to avoid printing messages

Value

Path to the directory where data was saved, if given, this is identical to cache_dir

References

Timmer, M. P., Dietzenbacher, E., Los, B., Stehrer, R. and de Vries, G. J. (2015), "An Illustrated User Guide to the World Input–Output Database: the Case of Global Automotive Production", Review of International Economics., 23: 575–605, www.wiod.org

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