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Add support for additional datasets #21
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@jo-fleck The choice of supported datasets was practical: calls to the API for those datasets all return in the same format. The other datasets return in a different format that would need some non-trivial additional work to implement. It's always been my intention to include them eventually (particularly the International Accounts) but I've never gotten around to it. Honestly, I wasn't sure if anyone other than me was even using this package! Your comment may be the thing to get me to finally start working on it. I'm also open to pull requests. :) |
Thanks for the explanation. Looking at the number of stars and forks, it seems there is a good amount of interest. I haven't checked but maybe some of the other tables return fairly similar formats (at least relative to each other)? Also, if you read R, you could get some help with the formats from this package: https://github.com/us-bea/bea.R (Not sure about the International Accounts, but it definitely supports the Regional Data.) |
It's been a while since I looked, but if I recall correctly the other datasets may need to be dealt with individually; I think that's why I put it off, aside from the fact that I don't use any but the NIPA and International accounts and the package was originally written just for my personal use and as a way to learn Julia. I've looked at the BEA's R package before, but it's been a while. Surprisingly perhaps, given the ubiquity of R, my package predates the BEA's package by a year or two. The first version was started when Julia was in version 0.4 or 0.5. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. If I add the regional sets I'll ping you so you can test it. |
Sounds good. Thanks a lot - will be happy to test! |
The BEA has expanded the list of datasets accessible via the API.
I can see the updated list with BeaData.jl:
However, when I try to download a table of the Regional dataset, I get an unsupported error:
Any plans to include the additional datasets? (Would be very useful I think.)
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