eurostat R package

R tools to access open data from Eurostat. Data search, download, manipulation and visualization.

Installation and use

# Install from CRAN
install.packages("eurostat")

# Install from GitHub
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ropengov/eurostat")

The package provides several different ways to get datasets from Eurostat. Searching for data is one way, if you know what to look for.

# Load the package
library(eurostat)

# Perform a simple search and print a table
passengers <- search_eurostat("passenger transport")
knitr::kable(head(passengers))

See the Tutorial and other resources at the package homepage for more information and examples.

Recommended packages

It is recommended to install the giscoR package (https://dieghernan.github.io/giscoR/). This is another API package that provides R tools for Eurostat geographic data to support geospatial analysis and visualization.

Contribute

Contributions are very welcome:

• Use issue tracker for feedback and bug reports.
• Send pull requests
• Star us on the Github page
• Join the discussion in Gitter

Acknowledgements

Kindly cite this work as follows: Leo Lahti, Przemyslaw Biecek, Markus Kainu and Janne Huovari. Retrieval and analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package. R Journal 9(1):385-392, 2017. R package version 3.7.5. URL: https://ropengov.github.io/eurostat/

We are grateful to all contributors, including Daniel Antal, Joona Lehtomäki, Francois Briatte, and Oliver Reiter, and for the Eurostat open data portal! This project is part of rOpenGov.

Disclaimer

This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Eurostat.