pxjob64Win (depreciated)

Look to pxmake instead. All in R

Statistics Finland has created a wonderful, rich and mature tool to create and edit px-files, namely PXEdit. This tool also contains methods to do everything programmatically, named PXJob. Check out https://www.stat.fi/tup/tilastotietokannat/px-tuoteperhe_en.html

This R-package brings access to 64bit pxjob-functionality, from R, with a minimal footprint.

Package installation in R

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("StatisticsGreenland/pxjob64Win")

Example to check validity of a px-file

library(pxjob64Win)

pxjob(input = "input_px_file.px", 
      output = file.path('output', 'parsed_px_file.px)
      )

Pxedit/Pxjob also offers learning material when instaling/unpacking the files from Statistics Finland. To learn more, read the documentation:

Documentation:
Tutorial:
Structural files: What are they?

Advanced use:

library(pxjob64Win)

pxjob <- c(system.file(package = "pxjob64Win","PxJob64.exe"))

system(paste(pxjob, " px" , " in=",tmp_file," out=",matrix,".px",sep=""))
system(paste(pxjob, " px" , " in=", matrix, ".px", " meta=", ctl_file, " -a", sep=""))