Get FishStat Dimension Groups

This function returns the groups for a given dimension (Concept). On a dataset with dimension country, the dimension groups (or hierachies) are used for aggregation (Continent, Region, ...).

Usage

GetDimensionGroups(metadata, dimensionConceptID)

Arguments

metadata

FishStat metadata; obtained using ReadMetadata

dimensionConceptID

dimension Identifier (a concept) obtained using GetDatasetDimensions

Value

Returns an object of the class data.table

See also

ReadEBXHierarchy.

Author

Thomas Berger, thomas.berger@fao.org