WITSclean function

WITS data clean

This function takes (import) trade data downloaded from WITS, cleans it and transforms it into a network. Adding a number of country level attributes to nodes in the network, including: regional partition, GDP, GDP per capita, GDP growth and FDI.

WITSclean(CSVfile, YEAR, threshold, cutoff)

Arguments

• CSVfile: WITS csv file
• YEAR: Year
• threshold: Apply a threshold - TRUE, Extract the backbone - FALSE
• cutoff: Threshold - cutoff level, Backbone - significance level

Returns

International Trade Network - igraph object