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gen_table

Source: R/gen_table.R
gen_table.Rd

Download a table with data from GENESIS, Zensus 2022 or regionalstatistik.de databases

Usage

gen_table(name, ...)

Arguments

name

Character string. Name/code of the table. Use of wildcards (*) is possible.

...

Optional parameters passed on to the Genesis API call:

area

Character string. The area in which the table is stored. Possible values:

  • "public": table in the public catalogue

  • "user": table in the user's account

  • "all": both of the above

compress

Boolean. Should empty rows and columns be discarded?

transpose

Boolean. Reshape the table between "wide" and "long" format.

startyear,endyear

Four-digit integers. Only retrieve data between these years.

regionalvariable

Character string. Code of the regional variable whose value is specified in regionalkey to filter the results.

regionalkey

Character string. One or more regional keys. Multiple values can be supplied as a character vector or as a single string, with the regional keys separated by commas. Use of wildcard (*) allowed.

classifyingvariable1,classifyingvariable2 ,classifyingvariable3

Character string. Code of the subject classification (SK-Merkmal) to which the selection by means of the corresponding classifyingkey parameter is to be applied.

classifyingkey1,classifyingkey2,classifyingkey3

Character string. One or more values of a subject classification (e.g. "WZ93012"). Applied to the corresponding classifyingvariable parameter. Multiple keys can be supplied as a character vector or as a single string, with the keys separated by commas. Use of wildcard (*) allowed.

stand

Character string, format: "DD.MM.YYYY". Only retrieve data updated after this date.

language

Search terms, returned messages and data descriptions in German ("de") or English ("en")?

job

Boolean. Indicate as to whether a job should be created (not available with the 'Zensus' database).)

all_character

Boolean. Should all variables be imported as 'character' variables? Avoids fuzzy data type conversions if there are leading zeros or other special characters. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A tibble.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
gen_table("21311-0001")
} # }