Eurostat package, error

[Camila-RV]

Hey guys, We're trying to get data from Eurostat package. After following the CRAN instructions of suggested library packages and vignettes, it is still showing the same error.

Here is the code:

id <- search_eurostat('Energy technologies patent applications to 
                      the EPO by priority year', type = 'dataset')$code[1]

Error: 'cols' is not an exported object from 'namespace:readr'

Also tried using the code available on data set details:

dat <- get_eurostat('pat_ep_nrgpct')

Error: 'cols' is not an exported object from 'namespace:readr'

Thanks in advance!

[christophergandrud]

Hi,

Two quick observations. Your search_eurostat returns an empty data frame (it doesn't find any data sets). So if you try to select the 1st row of the code column. You won't get anything.

So try id <- search_eurostat('energy', type = 'dataset')

That being said, I ran the second line of code and got the data.

The error you are getting means that the version of the readr package you have doesn't have a needed function called cols. This is probably because your version of the package is out of date. I would suggest updating all of your packages and re-running it. In RStudio:

Hope that helps!