africamonitor (version 0.2.4)

am_series: Retrieve Series Table

Description

This function pulls information about the data series available in the database.

Usage

am_series(
  dsid = NULL,
  source.info = TRUE,
  ordered = TRUE,
  return.query = FALSE
)

Value

A data.table with information about the available series in the database.

Arguments

dsid

character. (Optional) id's of datasources matching the 'DSID' column of the data sources table (retrieved using am_sources()) for which series information is to be returned.

source.info

logical. TRUE returns additional information from the data sources table (the source, the frequency of the data and when it was last updated).

ordered

logical. TRUE returns the series in a fixed order, while FALSE returns the result in a random order, to the benefit of faster query execution.

return.query

logical. TRUE will not query the database but instead return the constructed SQL query as a character string (for debugging purposes).

Details

The series table gives information about all of the time series in the database. Each series is given a unique code, and has a label describing the series. Further information recorded are the minimum and maximum time coverage, and (optionally) a separate series source and url. The default source.info = TRUE adds the source, the frequency of the data (homogeneous within source), and the date when the source was last updated.

See Also

am_countries, am_sources, am_data, africamonitor

Examples

# \donttest{
# By default returns all series with additional information
am_series()

# Raw series table
am_series(source.info = FALSE)

# Only series in the WEO
am_series("IMF_WEO")
# }