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get_eurostat folder handling

Open pitkant opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Currently search_eurostat can retrieve the following items: 'dataset', 'folder', 'table' (or 'all' of them). get_eurostat function can download datasets and tables but not folders.

This has led to some confusion whether eurostat package should be able to handle folders as well, by downloading all datasets in a given folder. Another possible enhancement is make eurostat handle folder and dataset hierarchies.

pitkant avatar Sep 14 '21 13:09 pitkant

In principle, extending the capabilities to folders would sound good but this has to be balanced with the cost/risk-benefit ratio. Wondering how common use case this would be. We can also leave it for later unless there is a pressing need.

Documentation could be clarified?

antagomir avatar Sep 14 '21 13:09 antagomir

Yes, clarifying documentation would be the easiest fix here

Partly related to #86 (downloading whole migr_asy folder instead of grepping folders that contain 'migr_asy*' or 'migr_*')

pitkant avatar Sep 14 '21 13:09 pitkant

Closed with the CRAN release of package version 4.0.0

pitkant avatar Dec 20 '23 08:12 pitkant