populaR

populaR provides a convenient interface to the UN’s World Population Prospects API. Several pre-baked datasets are included, as well as a convenient wrapper for more advanced API users

Installation

You can install the development version of populaR from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("chitrams/populaR")

Example

First you have to get the numeric ID of a location

library(populaR)
get_id("Australia", type = "locations")
#> Iterating ■■■ 5% | ETA: 29sIterating ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ 67% | ETA: 1s
#> # A tibble: 5 × 6
#>      id name                                                 iso3  iso2  longitude latitude
#>   <int> <chr>                                                <chr> <chr>     <dbl>    <dbl>
#> 1    36 Australia                                            AUS   AU         134.    -25.3
#> 2   927 Australia/New Zealand                                ANZ   ZL          NA      NA  
#> 3  1834 Australia/New Zealand                                ANZ   ZL          NA      NA  
#> 4  1835 Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)        OCA   OZ          NA      NA  
#> 5  5502 Europe, Northern America, Australia, and New Zealand SDG   SD          NA      NA