A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.

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FAOSTAT-package A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
aggCountry Function for aggregating entities into countries
aggRegion Function for computing regional aggregates
chConstruct Construct year to year change
chgr Absolute change between the year
CHMT This function avoids double counting of China
constructSYB Construct/Creat new variable.
dataDensity A plot to show the availability of the data
ebind A function to bind the different entity level.
FAOcheck This function perform some check on the data
FAOcountryProfile Country profile
FAOmetaTable The search tree for FAOSTAT3
FAOregionProfile Regional profile
FAOsearch A function to find the domain, element and item code for a specific FAOSTAT query.
fillCountryCode A function to get country code when not available in data.
geogr Geometric growth rate
getFAO Access to FAO FAOSTAT API
getFAOtoSYB Access to FAO FAOSTAT API
getWDI Access to World Bank WDI API
getWDImetaData World Bank Indicator Metadata
getWDItoSYB Access to World Bank WDI API
grConstruct Construct Growth rate
indConstruct Construct indices
lsgr Least squares growth rate
mergeSYB Function for merging data from different source.
overlap This function checks whether there are overlapping between the transitional countries.
printLab Print labels
shConstruct Construct share variable
sparsity A function to calculate the sparsity of the variable
sparsityHeatMap Function for examine sparsity
translateCountryCode A function to translate between different country coding systems
tsPanel Function to plot data by country and time