siconvr-package {siconvr} | R Documentation |
siconvr is a package designed to extract and clean data on federal targeted transfers in Brazil from SICONV (Sistema de Gestao de Convenios e Contratos de Repasse, in Portuguese).
Description
siconvr
has one main function: get_siconv()
Details
Under the hoods, this functions takes care of building the URLs for the
desired files; downloads, stores, and unzip files' contents; and read
the retrieved datasets as fast as possible using data.tables
' fread()
.
Users can select a wide range of datasets to download: data on proposals submited to the Brazilian Federal Government requesting local investments; details on these proposals; data on accepted projects, their evaluations; and the total amounts transfered.
To check the function's documentation page, run ?get_siconv
.
Author(s)
Maintainer: Fernando Meireles fmeireles@ufmg.br (ORCID)
Authors:
Marcus Vinícius de Sá Torres marcus.torres@ufpe.br (ORCID)
See Also
Useful links:
Report bugs at https://github.com/meirelesff/siconvr/issues