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Downloads and reads a Parquet file directly from the EconDataverse Hugging Face datasets using the arrow package.

Usage

ed_get(dataset, table, columns = NULL, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

dataset

Character string naming the dataset repository on Hugging Face (e.g., "wbids" for World Bank Indicators).

table

Character string naming the table.

columns

Character vector naming the columns. Defaults to NULL.

quiet

Logical; suppress messages? Default: FALSE.

Value

A data.frame containing the requested dataset, or NULL if the download fails.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
df <- ed_get("wbids", "counterparts")
head(df)

df <- ed_get(
  "wbids",
  "counterparts",
  columns = c("counterpart_id", "counterpart_name"))
} # }