Unable to Access Eurostat Table via {eurostat} Package

[iNANOV]

Description
The {eurostat} package cannot download or access the following Eurostat table:
🔗 Eurostat Table Link

Steps to Reproduce
I attempted to retrieve the dataset using different functions, but all resulted in errors:

library(eurostat)

# Attempt 1: Using get_eurostat_json()
get_eurostat_json("ds-059327")
# Error message:
# Error in get_eurostat_json("ds-059327") : 
# HTTP status: 404 (Not found)
# Error id: 100 (No results found)
# Error label from API: ERR_NOT_FOUND_4: DS-059327 (DATA_FLOW:ALL,1.0) is not available for dissemination.

# Attempt 2: Using get_eurostat()
get_eurostat("ds-059327")
# Error message:
# Error in get_eurostat("ds-059327") : 
# get_eurostat_raw fails with the id ds-059327

Expected Behavior
The functions should successfully retrieve the dataset from Eurostat.

Actual Behavior
The dataset cannot be accessed, returning a 404 HTTP error.

Additional Context
Other datasets seem to work fine with {eurostat}.

[pitkant]

Thank you for opening this issue. A few points:

• The current release version of the eurostat package does not support downloading data from other responsible agencies than Eurostat.
• Some work towards this end goal has been made in the development version 4.1. You may want to check out that branch in GitHub and try it out.
• In the future, the correct way to download DS-prefixed datasets or EMPL, GROW, etc. datasets would be through get_eurostat_sdmx()
• When downloading DS-prefixed datasets, the datasets would be so big that you would need to provide some filters to them.

More information about DS-prefixed datasets: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/user-guides/data-browser/api-data-access/api-detailed-guidelines/prefixed-datasets

See issue #287 for a code example

Currently work on a 4.1 release is not very high on my priority list so don't expect support for downloading DS-datasets come any time soon. However, if you have experience in R package development and would be willing to work on that specific feature, PRs are always welcome to the v4.1 or v4.1-dev branches.