Find tables containing search words — cbs

Find tables containing search words.

cbs_search(
  query,
  catalog = "CBS",
  language = "nl",
  format = c("datasets", "docs", "raw"),
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

query: character with the words to search for.
catalog: the subset in which the table is to be found, see cbs_get_catalogs(), set to NULL to query all catalogs.
language: should the "nl" (Dutch) or "en" (English) search index be used.
format: format in which the result should be returned, see details
verbose: logical should the communication with the server be shown?
...: not used

Details

The format can be either:

datasets: the same format as cbs_get_datasets(), with an extra score column.
docs: the table results from the solr query,
raw: the complete results from the solr query.

Examples

if (interactive()){
  # search for tables containing the word birth
  
  ds_en <- cbs_search("Birth", language="en")
  ds_en[1:3, c("Identifier", "ShortTitle")]
  
  # or in Dutch
  
  ds_nl <- cbs_search(c("geboorte"), language="nl")
  ds_nl[1:3, c("Identifier", "ShortTitle")]
  
  # Search in an other catalog
  ds_rivm <- cbs_search(c("geboorte"), catalog = "RIVM", language="nl")
  ds_rivm[1:3, c("Identifier", "ShortTitle")]
  
  # search in all catalogs
  ds_all <- cbs_search(c("geboorte"), catalog = NULL, language="nl")

  # docs
  docs <- cbs_search(c("geboorte,sterfte"), language="nl", format="docs")
  names(docs)
  docs[1:2,]
  
  #raw 
  raw_res <- cbs_search(c("geboorte,sterfte"), language="nl", format="raw")
  raw_res
}