Get a dataset from EconDataverse Hugging Face repositories

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

# \donttest{
df <- ed_get("wbids", "counterparts")
#> → Reading dataset from
#>   https://huggingface.co/datasets/econdataverse/wbids/resolve/main/counterparts.parquet
#> ✔ Successfully loaded counterparts from wbids
head(df)
#>   counterpart_id counterpart_name counterpart_iso2code counterpart_iso3code
#> 1            001          Austria                   AT                  AUT
#> 2            002          Belgium                   BE                  BEL
#> 3            003          Denmark                   DK                  DNK
#> 4            004           France                   FR                  FRA
#> 5            005          Germany                   DE                  DEU
#> 6            006            Italy                   IT                  ITA
#>   counterpart_type
#> 1          Country
#> 2          Country
#> 3          Country
#> 4          Country
#> 5          Country
#> 6          Country

df <- ed_get(
  "wbids",
  "counterparts",
  columns = c("counterpart_id", "counterpart_name"))
#> → Reading dataset from
#>   https://huggingface.co/datasets/econdataverse/wbids/resolve/main/counterparts.parquet
#> ✔ Successfully loaded counterparts from wbids
# }