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)

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See Also

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