Client to access the data from the Federal Statistical Office, Germany

Data retrieval client for Federal Statistical Office of Germany

Details

To authenticate, supply a vector with your user name, password, and database shortcut ("regio", "de", "nrw", "bm") as an argument for the genesis parameter whenever you call a retrieve_* function: c(user="your-username", password="your-password", db="database-shortname")

Alternatively, store the credentials on your computer using the save_credentials function. This function relies on the keyring package.

Available databases are regionalstatistik.de (shortname: "regio"), landesdatenbank.nrw.de ("nrw"), www-genesis.destatis.de ("de") and bildungsmonitoring.de ("bm").

Author

Moritz Marbach moritz.marbach@tamu.edu