You can use the function to retrieve information about all the data sets available at Statistics Denmark. For instance, you could get the time at which a specific data set previously was updated

dst_information(tableID, lang = "en", columns = c("id", "description",
  "contactperson", "mail"))

Arguments

tableID

the data set's ID. See dst_tables()

lang

used language in the data set. Can take the values "da" for danish and "en" for english.

columns

the columns returned. columns can take the values: id, text, description, unit, updated, name, phone, mail, documentationID, url or footnote.

Examples

dst_information("folk1a")
#> id: FOLK1A #> description: Population at the first day of the quarter by region, sex, age, marital status and time #> contactperson: Dorthe Larsen #> mail: dla@dst.dk