Get metadata

Retrieves metadata for a statistic, table, variable or value

metadata_statistic(
  name,
  area = c("free", "user", "all"),
  language = getOption("genesis_language"),
  genesis = getOption("genesis")
)

metadata_table(
  name,
  area = c("free", "user", "all"),
  language = getOption("genesis_language"),
  genesis = getOption("genesis")
)

metadata_value(
  name,
  area = c("free", "user", "all"),
  language = getOption("genesis_language"),
  genesis = getOption("genesis")
)

metadata_variable(
  name,
  area = c("free", "user", "all"),
  language = getOption("genesis_language"),
  genesis = getOption("genesis")
)

Arguments

name

Code of the variable (e.g. retrieved using catalogue_variables)

area

Area in which the object is stored:

• "free" = objects in the public catalogue

• "user" = objects saved to "Meine Tabellen"

language

Search terms, returned messages and data descriptions in German ("de") or English ("en")?

A default value can also be set to the global option genesis_language via options(), e.g. options(genesis_language = "de").

genesis

Which GENESIS database should be used?

One of: "destatis", "regionalstatistik", "bildungsmonitoring", "bayern", "nrw", "sachsen-anhalt".

A default value can also be set to the global option genesis via options(), e.g. options(genesis = "destatis"), so that genesis does not have to be specified in the function call.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
options(genesis = "destatis")
metadata_statistic("12411")
metadata_table("12411-0001")
metadata_variable("KREISE")
metadata_value("VV101")
}