eurostat (version 2.2.1)

tidy_eurostat: Transform Data into Row-Column-Value Format

Description

Transform raw Eurostat data table into the row-column-value format (RCV).

Usage

tidy_eurostat(dat, time_format = "date", select_time = NULL, stringsAsFactors = default.stringsAsFactors(), keepFlags = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

a data_frame from get_eurostat_raw.

time_format

a string giving a type of the conversion of the time column from the eurostat format. A "date" (default) convers to a Date with a first date of the period. A "date_last" convers to a Date with a last date of the period. A "num" convers to a numeric and "raw" does not do conversion. See eurotime2date and eurotime2num.

select_time

a character symbol for a time frequence or NULL (default).

stringsAsFactors

if TRUE (the default) variables are converted to factors in original Eurostat order. If FALSE they are returned as strings.

keepFlags

a logical whether the flags (e.g. "confidential", "provisional") should be kept in a separate column or if they can be removed. Default is FALSE

Value

tibble in the molten format with the last column 'values'.

References

See citation("eurostat").

See Also

get_eurostat