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R: Get statistical data from http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/

getStatsData

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Get statistical data from http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/

Description

Get statistical data that you specify the data ID from “Gateway to Advanced and User-friendly Statistics Service” (http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/) organized by Japanese government.

Usage

getStatsData(statsDataId = NULL, dataSetId = NULL, limit = NULL,
             lvTab = "", cdTab = NULL, lvTime = "", cdTime = NULL,
             lvArea = "", cdArea = NULL)

Arguments

`statsDataId`	statistical data ID (character)
`dataSetId`	dataset ID you made (character)
`limit`	Maximum number of data to download
`lvTab`	Level of tables to download
`cdTab`	Code of tables to download (comma separated characters)
`lvTime`	Level of survey date to download
`cdTime`	Code of survey date to download (comma separated characters)
`lvArea`	Level of area to download
`cdArea`	Code of area to download (comma separated characters)

Details

Data includes some levels of tables, survey dates and areas. For example, data ID 0003009759 includes 1 table (the number of buildings), 1 survey date (year 2008) and 112 areas (prefectures and cities). Level 2 of area shows prefectures, level 3 shows the city parts of each prefecture, and level 4 shows the major cities (e.g. Sapporo, Yokohama, Nagoya, etc.). You can specify the level of table, time and area to download data. If you don't specify the level, all levels are included to data.

Value

It returns the “jpstat” object, which includes

`ID`	data ID
`Stat name`	statistics name of government
`Government`	goverment (ministry) that has the authority of data
`Statistics name`	provided statistics name
`Title`	title of data
`Survey date`	survey date
`Tables`	data body

Tables is a list that contains tables, and each table is data frame.

Author(s)

Kiwamu Ishikura <ishikura.kiwamu@gmail.com>

References

http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/system-info/api/api-spec/

Examples

getStatsList("Hokkaido AND population", surveyYears = 2008)
hpop20 <- getStatsData("0003009759")
head(hpop20@data[[1L]])

Results


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> library(Rjpstatdb)
Loading required package: RCurl
Loading required package: bitops
Loading required package: XML
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Rjpstatdb/getStatsData.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: getStatsData
> ### Title: Get statistical data from http://statdb.nstac.go.jp/
> ### Aliases: getStatsData
> ### Keywords: ~getStatsData ~getStatsList
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> ## No test: 
> getStatsList("Hokkaido AND population", surveyYears = 2008)
Error: Not Found 
Execution halted