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FAOSTAT

getFAO

Access to FAO FAOSTAT API.

Description

A function to access FAOSTAT data through the FAOSTAT API.

Usage

getFAO(
  name = NULL,
  domainCode = "RL",
  elementCode = 5110,
  itemCode = 6621,
  query,
  printURL = FALSE,
  useCHMT = TRUE,
  outputFormat = "wide",
  returnNames = FALSE,
  returnFlags = FALSE,
  yearRange = NULL,
  countrySet = NULL
)

Arguments

`name`	The name to be given to the variable.
`domainCode`	The domain of the data.
`elementCode`	The code of the element.
`itemCode`	The code of the specific item.
`query`	The object created if using the FAOsearch function.
`printURL`	Whether the url link for the data should be printed.
`useCHMT`	logical, whether the CHMT function should be applied to avoid double counting of China.
`outputFormat`	The format of the data, can be 'long' or 'wide'.
`returnNames`	Logical, should the area, the element and the item names be reported?.
`returnFlags,`	Logical, whether the flags should be returned. Only work with outputFormat long.
`yearRange`	A numeric vector containing the years to be downloaded.
`countrySet`	The FAOSTAT codes of those countries to be downloaded.

Details

Need to account for multiple itemCode, currently only support one single variable.

Value

Outputs a data frame containing the specified data.