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FAOSTAT (version 1.4)

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

614

Version

1.4

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Michael C J Kao

Last Published

May 30th, 2013

Functions in FAOSTAT (1.4)

getFAO

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API
FAOmetaTable

The search tree for FAOSTAT3
FAOsearch

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

Function for aggregating entities into countries
FAOcheck

This function perform some check on the data
chConstruct

Construct year to year change
translateCountryCode

A function to translate between different country coding systems
CHMT

This function avoids double counting of China
grConstruct

Construct Growth rate
mergeSYB

Function for merging data from different source.
fillCountryCode

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

Geometric growth rate
sparsity

A function to calculate the sparsity of the variable
getFAOtoSYB

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API
constructSYB

Construct/Creat new variable.
lsgr

Least squares growth rate
tsPanel

Function to plot data by country and time
printLab

Print labels
getWDImetaData

World Bank Indicator Metadata
ebind

A function to bind the different entity level.
FAOcountryProfile

Country profile
getWDItoSYB

Access to World Bank WDI API
overlap

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

Function for computing regional aggregates
getWDI

Access to World Bank WDI API
FAOSTAT-package

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

Absolute change between the year
sparsityHeatMap

Function for examine sparsity
shConstruct

Construct share variable
indConstruct

Construct indices
dataDensity

A plot to show the availability of the data
FAOregionProfile

Regional profile