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FAOSTAT (version 1.9)

getFAO: Access to FAO FAOSTAT API.

Description

A function to access FAOSTAT data through the FAOSTAT API.

Usage

getFAO(name = NULL, domainCode = "RL", elementCode = 5110,
  itemCode = 6621, query, printURL = FALSE, productionDB = FALSE,
  useCHMT = TRUE, outputFormat = "wide", returnNames = FALSE,
  returnFlags = FALSE, yearRange = NULL, countrySet = NULL)

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.
yearRange
A numeric vector containing the years to be downloaded.
countrySet
The FAOSTAT codes of those countries to be downloaded.
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.
useCHMT
logical, whether the CHMT function should be applied to avoid double counting of China.
outputFormat
The format of the data, can be 'long' or 'wide'.
returnNames
Logical, should the area, the element and the item names be reported?.
returnFlags,
Logical, whether the flags should be returned. Only work with outputFormat long.

Value

  • Outputs a data frame containing the specified data.

Details

Need to account for multiple itemCode, currently only support one single variable.

See Also

getWDI, getWDItoSYB, getFAOtoSYB, FAOsearch