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chConstruct

Construct year to year change

A function for constructing year to year change

chConstruct(
  data,
  origVar,
  country = "FAOST_CODE",
  year = "Year",
  newVarName = NA,
  n = 1
)

`data`	The data frame containing the data
`origVar`	The variable in which the year to year change is to be calculated
`country`	The column representing the index of country.
`year`	The column represing the index of year.
`newVarName`	The name assigned to the new variable, if missing then .CH will be appended.
`n`	The period for the change rate to be calculated.

A data frame containing the computed year to year change rate.

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v2.2.1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Michael C. J. Kao <michael.kao@fao.org>, Markus Gesmann, Filippo Gheri

Initial release

2020-11-12