Download Data from INKAR — get_inkar

Retrieves statistical data for a given variable and spatial level. Automatically handles time reference lookup.

Usage

get_inkar_data(
  variable,
  level = "KRE",
  year = NULL,
  lang = c("de", "en"),
  format = c("long", "wide"),
  csv = FALSE,
  export_dir = NULL
)

Arguments

variable: Character. The indicator ID (Shortname), e.g., "011".
level: Character. Spatial level code (e.g., "KRE" for Kreise).
year: Integer/Character vector. Specific year (e.g., 2021) or range (e.g., 2010:2020). If NULL, fetches all available years.
lang: Character. "de" (default) for German column names, "en" for English.
format: Character. "long" (default) for tidy format, "wide" for years as columns.
csv: Logical. If TRUE, saves the data to a CSV file in the directory specified by export_dir.
export_dir: Character. Directory to save the CSV file if csv = TRUE. If NULL (default), it saves to the current working directory (".").

Value

A tibble containing the data.