escort: European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) R Toolkit

ESCO (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of Skills, Competences and Occupations. ESCO works as a dictionary, describing, identifying and classifying professional occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. Those concepts and the relationships between them can be understood by electronic systems, which allows different online platforms to use ESCO for services like matching jobseekers to jobs on the basis of their skills, suggesting trainings to people who want to reskill or upskill etc. This package provides a set of tools to work with ESCO data via its application programming interface (API).

What does the package do?

The package provides a set of tools to work with ESCO data via its application programming interface (API). It allows users to retrieve and manipulate data related to skills, competences, qualifications, and occupations in the European context. The package is designed to facilitate the integration of ESCO data into various applications, enabling functionalities such as job matching, skill assessment, and career guidance.

Installation

{escort} is not yet available on CRAN but can be installed through the Oxford iHealth R Universe repository as follows:

install.packages(
  "escort", 
  repos = c('https://oxfordihtm.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org')
)

{escort} can also be installed from GitHub using the {pak} package with:

if (!require("pak")) install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("OxfordIHTM/escort")

Usage

Citation

If you use the {escort} in your work, please cite using the suggested citation provided by a call to the citation function as follows:

citation("escort")
#> Warning in citation("escort"): could not determine year for 'escort' from
#> package DESCRIPTION file
#> To cite package 'escort' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Guevarra E (????). _escort: European Skills, Competences,
#>   Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) R Toolkit_. R package version
#>   0.0.0.9000, <https://oxford-ihtm.io/oxthema/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Manual{,
#>     title = {escort: European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) R Toolkit},
#>     author = {Ernest Guevarra},
#>     note = {R package version 0.0.0.9000},
#>     url = {https://oxford-ihtm.io/oxthema/},
#>   }

Community guidelines

Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.

This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

If you are interested in Oxford iHealth’s work and would like to join the community or contribute to it’s various projects, visit the Oxford iHealth website and its community page to learn more.