Generate histogram and boxplot of HarvestChoice indicators

Display a histogram and univariate statistics for any selected HarvestChoice variable(s). See examples below. Note that calling stats(...) is equivalent to calling the convenience method hcapi(..., format="stats").

stats(var, iso3 = "SSA", by = NULL)

Arguments

var

character array of variable codes to plot

iso3

optional country or region filter (3-letter code)

Value

plot

Details

# API call: generate 2 plots showing farming systems and 2012 population density in Ghana $ curl http://hcapi.harvestchoice.org/ocpu/library/hcapi3/R/stats \ -d '{"var":["bmi", "cass_y"]}' \ -X POST -H 'Content-Type:application/json' -- /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/R/.val /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/graphics/1 /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/graphics/2 /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/source /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/console /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/info /ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/files/DESCRIPTION

Use wget (at the command line) to download the generated plot(s)

$ wget http://hcapi.harvestchoice.org/ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/graphics/1/png $ wget http://hcapi.harvestchoice.org/ocpu/tmp/x09db409895/graphics/2/png

Examples

# Plots of BMI and cassava yield distribution over sub-Saharan Africa
stats(c("bmi", "cass_y"))