Read ilostat Dictionary

Downloads one ilostat dictionary from ilostat https://ilostat.ilo.org via bulk download facility https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/.

Usage

get_ilostat_dic(
  dic,
  lang = getOption("ilostat_lang", "en"),
  cache_dir = getOption("ilostat_cache_dir", NULL),
  quiet = getOption("ilostat_quiet", TRUE)
)

Arguments

dic: A character, dictionary for the variable to be downloaded,
lang: a character, code for language. Available are "en" (default), "fr" and "es". Can be set also with options(ilostat_lang = 'fr'),
cache_dir: a path to a cache directory. The directory has to exist. The NULL (default) uses and creates 'ilostat' directory in the temporary directory from tempdir. The directory can also be set with option ilostat_cache_dir,
quiet: a logical, if FALSE , return message from processing, TRUE (default). Can be set also with options(ilostat_quiet = TRUE),

Value

tibble with two columns: code names and full names.

Details

For a given coded variable from ilostat https://ilostat.ilo.org/. The dictionaries link codes with human-readable labels. To translate codes to labels, use label_ilostat.

References

See citation("Rilostat") ilostat bulk download facility user guidelines https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/bulk/

Author

David Bescond bescond@ilo.org

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
 tmp <- get_ilostat_dic("indicator")
 head(tmp)
 tmp <- get_ilostat_dic("classif1", lang = "fr")
 head(tmp)
} # }