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FAOSTAT (version 1.1)

A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Description

The package hosts a list of functions to download, manipulate, construct and aggregate agricultural statistics provided by the FAOSTAT database of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

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install.packages('FAOSTAT')

Monthly Downloads

428

Version

1.1

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Michael C J Kao

Last Published

February 1st, 2013

Functions in FAOSTAT (1.1)

Construct year to year change

A function to find the domain, element and item code for a specific FAOSTAT query.

Function for aggregating entities into countries

Construct indices

This function avoids double counting of China

This function checks whether there are overlapping between the transitional countries.

Function for computing regional aggregates

Construct Growth rate

World Bank Indicator Metadata

The search tree for FAOSTAT3

FAOSTAT-package

A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

Absolute change between the year

fillCountryCode

A function to get country code when not available in data.

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API

Access to World Bank WDI API

Construct share variable

FAOregionProfile

Regional profile

FAOcountryProfile

Country profile

translateCountryCode

A function to translate between different country coding systems

This function perform some check on the data

A function to calculate the sparsity of the variable

Least squares growth rate

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API

Function for merging data from different source.

Access to World Bank WDI API

A function to bind the different entity level.

Construct/Creat new variable.

Geometric growth rate