"How can stats and data publishers, from NGOs and (inter)national
statistics agencies to scientific researchers, publish their data in a
way that supports its analysis directly, as well as in combination
with other datasets?"
"...As well as providing a way of running data grab queries over the
FAO FAOSTAT and World Bank WDI APIs, it seems to provide support for
“linkage”. As the draft vignette suggests, “Merge is a typical data
manipulation step in daily work yet a non-trivial exercise especially
when working with different data sources....""
http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/03/08/publishing-stats-for-analytics-reuse-faostat-website-and-r-package/--
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