africamonitor-package {africamonitor}

Africa Macroeconomic Monitor Database API

Description

An R API providing access to a relational database with macroeconomic data for Africa. The database is maintained at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Functions

Functions and data providing information about the available data

am_sources()
am_series()
am_countries
am_countries_wld
am_entities

Function to retrieve the data from the database

am_data()

Functions to reshape data and add temporal identifiers

am_pivot_wider()
am_pivot_longer()
am_expand_date()

Helper functions to convert inputs to R dates

am_as_date()

Global Macros with core ID variables in the database

.AMID
.AMT