rTempo – an R package to access the TEMPO-Online database

Ana-Maria Tiru, Iulia Elena Toma and Marian Necula
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Ana-Maria Tiru: National Institute of Statistics, Romania
Iulia Elena Toma: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Marian Necula: National Institute of Statistics, Romania

Romanian Statistical Review, 2017, vol. 65, issue 4, 57-66

Abstract: In this paper we describe rTempo which is an R package that provides functions to access statistical data from TEMPO-Online database. Our package provides only the bulk download method since the TEMPO-Online database, Romanian National Institute of Statistics public database, does not have yet an API or a web service to access the data. Accessing data directly from R improves the efficiency of statistical production since it eliminates the tedious GUI. The communication between our package and TEMPO-Online database is achieved using the HTTP. Querying and searching for the data is done using rvest package. Besides the actual data, our package also provides facilities for downloading the metadata.

Keywords: R; Tempo online; statistical database access; R packages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 C63 C88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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