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cbsodataR (version 0.5.1)

cbsodataR-package: Download all data from Statistics Netherlands / CBS

Description

cbsodataR allows to download all official statistics of Statistics Netherlands (CBS) into R. For a introduction please visit the vignette: vignette("cbsodataR", package="cbsodataR"). The functions cbs_get_toc() and cbs_get_data() should get you going.

Arguments

Catalog function

  • cbs_get_datasets() returns a data.frame with table of contents (toc): the publication meta data for available tables, can also include the extra tables not directly available in StatLine (dataderden)

  • cbs_get_catalogs(), returns data.frame with the available (extra) catalogs.

  • cbs_get_toc(), returns a data.frame with table of contents (toc): the publication meta data for available tables within the standard CBS

  • cbs_search(), returns a data.frame with tables that contain the given search word.

Data retrieval

  • cbs_get_data(), returns the data of a specific opendata/StatLine table

  • cbs_download_table(), saves the data (and metadata) as csv files into a directory

Meta data

  • cbs_get_meta(), returns the meta data objects of a specific opendata / StatLine table .

  • cbs_add_date_column(), converts date/period codes into DateTime objects in the data set that was downloaded.

  • cbs_add_label_columns(), adds labels to the code columns in the data that was downloaded.

Author

Maintainer: Edwin de Jonge edwindjonge@gmail.com

Other contributors:

  • Sara Houweling [contributor]

See Also

Useful links: