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R package convergEU

Indicators and measures by country and time describe what happens at economic and social levels. This package provides functions to calculate several measures of convergence after imputing missing values. The automated download of Eurostat data, followed by the production of country fiches and indicator fiches, makes possible to automate the production of reports. This is the development release.

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The stable release of the R package is available at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=convergEU

This project is a joint work with Eurofound developed under contract № 18-3030-42.

January 2024 -The package has been updated to add patterns (from 39 to 59) to the country dynamics analysis, maps have also been added to the fiches.

You may use devtools to install the current version under development:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github(repo="eurofound/convergEU",
              build_vignettes= TRUE,
              force= TRUE)

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install.packages('convergEU')

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Version

0.7.3.2

License

GPL-3 | BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Eleonora Peruffo

Last Published

January 21st, 2024

Functions in convergEU (0.7.3.2)

convergEU_glb

Global objects for convergEU package
country_ranking

Ranking of EU countries by time
departure_mean

Departures from an average
departure_best_plot

Plot of deviations from the best performer
demea_change

Calculate changes of deviations from the mean
departure_best

Departures from the best country
dbMetaEUStat

Eurostat metainformation
delta_conv

Delta-convergence statistic
dbEUF2018meta

Metainformation on Eurofound dataset
dbEurofound

Eurofound dataset
down_lo_EUS

Download a dataset (tibble) from Eurostat.
download_indicator_EUS

Download a dataset (tibble) from Eurostat.
emp_20_64_MS

Dataset emp_20_64_MS
dev_mean_plot

Plot of deviations from the mean
extract_indicator_ECG

Create a dataset (tibble) for an ECG indicator.
dow_soc_scor_boa

Downloader of social scoreboard indicators
ma_dataset

Smoother based on moving average
extract_indicator_EIGE

Create a dataset (tibble) for an EIGE indicator.
gra_de2_patt

Values to patterns
extract_indicator_EUF

Create a dataset (tibble) for an indicator.
patt_legend

Graphical legend about time patterns
graph_departure

Graphical representation based on sigma convergence
go_ms_fi

Create a country fiche for an indicator
go_indica_fi

Create an indicator fiche for a given aggregation of countries.
map_2_patt_39

Values to patterns
ms_pattern_ori

Find patterns for all countries
not_in

Auxiliary function for membership
ts_parlin

Time-indicator serie to straight lines parameters
patt_legend_39

Graphical legend about time patterns
upDo_CoDi

Upward-downward convergence declaration
sigma_conv_graph

Graphical representation based on sigma convergence
gamma_conv

Gamma convergence
gamma_conv_msteps

Gamma convergence iterated on several years in pairs
map_2_patt_59

Values to patterns
scoreb_yrs

Scoreboard of countries
sigma_conv

Sigma-convergence statistic
ms_dynam

Member state dynamics
pop_var

Population variance and standard deviation
points2par

From points to parameters of a straight line
smoo_dataset

Smoother based on weighting
impu_det_lin

Imputation of missing values
ms_pattern_59

Find patterns for all countries
impute_dataset

Imputation to make a dataset complete
ms_pattern_39

Find patterns for all countries
compo_cond_EUS

Auxiliary function compo_cond_EUS
check_country

Check a dataset (tibble) for the presence of countries
coeu_grad

Auxiliary function for gradients and delta2
beta_conv_graph

Graphical representation based on beta convergence
check_data

Make tests on a dataset (dataframe and tibbles)
beta_conv

Beta-convergence statistic
average_clust

Unweighted average of countries
abso_change

Absolute change
convergEU-package

convergEU: Monitoring Convergence of EU Countries
coeu_gradV

Auxiliary function to provide a different object as input