Package: samadb 0.3.0
samadb: South Africa Macroeconomic Database API
An R API providing access to a relational database with macroeconomic time series data for South Africa, obtained from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Statistics South Africa (STATSSA), and updated on a weekly basis via the EconData <https://www.econdata.co.za/> platform and automated scraping of the SARB and STATSSA websites. The database is maintained at the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.
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samadb.pdf |samadb.html✨
samadb/json (API)
NEWS
| # Install 'samadb' in R: |
| install.packages('samadb', repos = c('https://sebkrantz.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')) |
Bug tracker:https://github.com/stellenbosch-econometrics/samadb-issues/issues
Last updated 6 months agofrom:c2d75cea42. Checks:OK: 7. Indexed: yes.
| Target | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Doc / Vignettes | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.5-win | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.5-linux | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.4-win | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.4-mac | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.3-win | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
| R-4.3-mac | OK | Nov 21 2024 |
Exports:.SAMADB_ID.SAMADB_Tsm_as_datesm_datasm_datasetssm_datasourcessm_expand_datesm_pivot_longersm_pivot_widersm_seriessm_transposesm_write_excel
Readme and manuals
Help Manual
| Help page | Topics |
|---|---|
| South Africa Macroeconomic Database API | samadb-package samadb |
| Global Identifier Macros | .SAMADB_ID .SAMADB_T |
| Coerce Vectors to Dates | sm_as_date |
| Retrieve Data from the Database | sm_data |
| Retrieve Datasets Table | sm_datasets |
| Retrieve Data Sources Table | sm_datasources |
| Generate Temporal Identifiers from a Date Column | sm_expand_date |
| Reshape Column-Based Data to Long Format | sm_pivot_longer |
| Reshape Long API Data to Column-Based Format | sm_pivot_wider |
| Retrieve Series Table | sm_series |
| Transpose a Wide Dataset to a Row-Based Format | sm_transpose |
| Export Wide Data to Excel | sm_write_excel |
