data_control {globaltrends}

data_control

Description

The table data_control contains the downloaded data for each control batch. Each line contains the search hits for each keyword in a control batch for a given location and date. Global data gets the value world as location. Data is downloaded and automatically written to the table through the function download_control. The function start_db exports the table data_control as database connection tbl_control to the package environment gt.env. Users can access the database table through dplyr::tbl. The sample data included in data_control was simulated based on actual Google Trends data.

Example data for the table data_control is available as R object example_control.

Usage

example_control

Format

A tibble with 2,400 rows and 5 variables:

location

Column of type character showing the ISO2 code of the country or region for which the data was downloaded.

keyword

Column of type character showing the keyword for which the data was downloaded.

date

Column of type integer showing the date for which the data was downloaded. Can be transformed into date format with lubridate::as_date.⁠\item{hits}{Column of type⁠double⁠showing search volumes for the respective location-keyword-date combination.} \item{batch}{Column of type⁠integer' showing the number of each batch.

Source

https://trends.google.com/trends/

See Also

• download_control()

• dplyr::tbl()