Statistics Netherlands (www.cbs.nl) opendata API client for R

Retrieve data from the open data interface (dutch) of Statistics Netherlands (cbs.nl) with R.

Installation

From CRAN

install.packages("cbsodataR")

The latest development version of cbsodata can installed using devtools.

devtools::install_github("edwindj/cbsodataR")

Usage

Retrieve list a tables.

> tables <- get_table_list(Language="en")

Use the Identifier from tables to retrieve table information

> get_meta('71509ENG')

71509ENG: 'Yield apples and pears', 2013
  FruitFarmingRegions: 'Fruit farming regions'
  Periods: 'Periods' 

Or download data

> get_data('71509ENG') %>% select(2:5) %>% head

Source: local data frame [6 x 4]

  FruitFarmingRegions Periods TotalAppleVarieties_1 CoxSOrangePippin_2
1   Total Netherlands    1997                   420                 43
2   Total Netherlands    1998                   518                 40
3   Total Netherlands    1999                   568                 39
4   Total Netherlands    2000                   461                 27
5   Total Netherlands    2001                   408                 30
6   Total Netherlands    2002                   354                 17