economiccomplexity (version 0.1.2)

revealed_comparative_advantage: Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA)

Description

Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA)

Usage

revealed_comparative_advantage(trade_data = NULL, country = "country",
  product = "product", value = "value", cutoff = 1,
  discrete = TRUE, tbl_output = FALSE)

Arguments

trade_data

tibble/data.frame in long format, it must contain the columns country (character/factor), product (character/factor) and export value (numeric)

country

string to indicate the column that contains exporting countries (e.g. "reporter_iso")

product

string to indicate the column that contains exported products (e.g. "product_code")

value

string to indicate the column that contains traded values (e.g. "trade_value_usd")

cutoff

when set to TRUE all the values lower than the specified cutoff will be converted to zero and to one in other case, numeric (default set to 1)

discrete

when set to TRUE it will convert all the Revealed Comparative Advantage values to zero or one based on the cutoff value (default set to TRUE)

tbl_output

when set to TRUE the output will be a tibble instead of a matrix (default set to FALSE)

References

For more information on revealed comparative advantage and its uses see:

atlas2014economiccomplexity

Examples

# NOT RUN {
revealed_comparative_advantage(
 trade_data = services_trade_2016$services_trade_2016_matrix,
 tbl_output = TRUE
)
# }