AMECO package

Package name: AMECO

Purpose: To download the European Commission AMECO Database.

Future Development: Database vintages will be added to the next version (I'll write this up in the next day or two).

Bugs, Errors, Suggestions, Feedback: graeme.walsh@centralbank.ie

Note: This software is not a product of the European Commission.

Instructions

The package can be installed from GitHub by running the R code shown below.

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github(repo="xprimexinverse/AMECO")

So far, I have only tested installing the package on Windows 10, so if you use a Linux distribution (like Ubuntu) or have a Mac, please let me know if this code snippet worked for you.

You may need to install the following package before trying to install the AMECO package: qdapRegex.

I have not submitted the package to CRAN, so you won't find it there.

# Load the package
library(AMECO)

# Retrieve the Data
AMECO <- getAMECOData()

AMECO database last update: 11 May 2017

# Display the class of the returned object
class(AMECO)

[1] "list"

# Display the number of elements in the list
length(AMECO)

[1] 18

The 18 elements of the list refer to the 18 sections in the database, e.g. AMECO1, AMECO2, …, AMECO18.

Talk to Graeme!

Contact: graeme.walsh@centralbank.ie