find {eurodata}

Search Eurostat datasets and see the result as text

Description

A tool for a quick ad-hoc search.

Usage

find(...)

Arguments

...

A series of unquoted words to be searched either in Eurostat dataset codes or in dataset full names. All words not preceded by minus (-) will be linked with logical AND; all words preceded by a minus entail exclusion (logical NOT), a bit like in Google search. It is possible to search also with phrases that include spaces – in such a case the phrases should be quoted. Partial word/phrase match is applied. See the examples below.

Value

• Side effect (via print) – a text report file opened via file.show.

• Value – a list with:

  • criteria – a string, search criteria,

  • time – the time of the query,

  • df – a data.frame, imported via importDataList and filtered based on the conditions specified in ...,

  • report – a string, with the text report.

Examples

## Not run: 
find(bop, its)
find(bop,-ybk,its)
find(nama_)
find(nama,10,64)
find('economic indic')

## End(Not run)