FAOSTAT (version 1.1)

getFAO: Access to FAO FAOSTAT API

Description

A function to access FAOSTAT data through the FAOSTAT API

Usage

getFAO(name = "arableLand", domainCode = "RL",
    elementCode = 5110, itemCode = 6621, query,
    printURL = FALSE, productionDB = FALSE)

Arguments

name

The name to be given to the variable.

domainCode

The domain of the data

elementCode

The code of the element

itemCode

The code of the specific item

query

The object created if using the FAOsearch function

printURL

Whether the url link for the data should be printed

productionDB

Access to the production database, defaulted to public

Value

• Outputs a data frame containing the specified data

Details

Need to account for multiple itemCode, currently only support one single variable. Add date range in to argument

See Also

getWDI, getWDItoSYB, getFAOtoSYB, FAOsearch

Examples

getFAO()