The function downloads and saves the Eurostat table of contents and code dictionaries to the temporary directory of the session, if it does not already exist there; then it loads them to the requested environment to avoid repeated requests to the Eurostat data warehouse.

load_eurostat_metadata(envir = globalenv(), path = tempdir())

Arguments

envir

The environment to load the metadata, defaults to the global environment of your current R session.

path

The path where you want to store the Eurostat table of contents and dictionaries, defaults to tempdir().