Package: FAOSTAT 2.4.2

FAOSTAT: Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. A list of functions to download statistics from FAOSTAT (database of the FAO <https://www.fao.org/faostat/>) and WDI (database of the World Bank <https://data.worldbank.org/>), and to perform some harmonization operations.

Authors:Michael C. J. [aut], Markus Gesmann [aut], Filippo Gheri [aut], Paul Rougieux [aut, cre], Sebastian Campbell [aut]

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FAOSTAT/json (API)

# Install 'FAOSTAT' in R:

install.packages('FAOSTAT', repos = c('https://paulrougieux.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://gitlab.com/paulrougieux/faostatpackage

Datasets:

FAOcountryProfile - Country profile
FAOmetaTable - The search tree for FAOSTAT3
FAOregionProfile - Regional profile

On CRAN:

6.61 score 1 packages 135 scripts 982 downloads 190 mentions 37 exports 19 dependencies

Last updated from:f1bded9f58. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	132
source / vignettes	OK	177
linux-release-x86_64	OK	155
macos-release-arm64	OK	180
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	155
windows-devel	OK	74
windows-release	OK	77
windows-oldrel	OK	77
wasm-release	OK	135

Exports:Aggregation change_case chConstruct check_country_overlap chgr CHMT constructSYB download_faostat_bulk ebind FAOsearch faostat_login fillCountryCode geogr get_faostat_bulk get_faostat_bulk_api get_faostat_bulk_url getFAO getWDI getWDImetaData getWDItoSYB grConstruct indConstruct lsgr mergeSYB overlap printLab read_bulk_metadata read_dataset_dimension read_dimension_metadata read_fao read_faostat_bulk scaleUnit search_dataset shConstruct translate_countrycodes translateCountryCode translateUnit

Dependencies:askpass class classInt curl data.table e1071 httr jsonlite KernSmooth labeling MASS mime openssl plyr proxy R6 Rcpp RJSONIO sys

Download and harmonize FAOSTAT and WDI data: the FAOSTAT package

Rendered fromFAOSTAT.Rnwusingknitr::knitr

Last update: 2026-04-01
Started: 2014-07-30

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Help Manual

Help page	Topics
A complementary package to the FAOSTAT database and the Statistical Yearbook of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.	FAOSTAT-package FAOSTAT
Compute Aggregates	Aggregation
Change case of column names	change_case
Construct year to year change	chConstruct
This function perform some check on the data	check_country_overlap
Absolute change between the year	chgr
This function avoids double counting of China.	CHMT
Construct/Creat new variable.	constructSYB
Download bulk data from the faostat website https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data	download_faostat_bulk get_faostat_bulk get_faostat_bulk_api get_faostat_bulk_url read_bulk_metadata read_faostat_bulk
A function to bind the different entity level.	ebind
Country profile	FAOcountryProfile
The search tree for FAOSTAT3	FAOmetaTable
Regional profile	FAOregionProfile
Register for a FAOSTAT account and login to get an access token	faostat_login
A function to get country code when not available in data.	fillCountryCode
Geometric growth rate	geogr
Access to World Bank WDI API	getWDI
World Bank Indicator Metadata	getWDImetaData
Access to World Bank WDI API	getWDItoSYB
Construct Growth rate	grConstruct
Construct indices	indConstruct
Least squares growth rate	lsgr
Function for merging data from different source.	mergeSYB
This function checks whether there are overlapping between the transitional countries.	overlap
Print labels	printLab
Examine dimensions of a dataset	read_dataset_dimension read_dimension_metadata
Access FAOSTAT API	getFAO read_fao
A function to standardize the unit	scaleUnit
Search FAOSTAT dataset_codes, datasets, elements, indicators, and items	FAOsearch search_dataset
Construct share variable	shConstruct
A function to translate between different country coding systems	translateCountryCode translate_countrycodes
Function to translate multipliers	translateUnit