igoR 
The goal of igoR is to provide access and to extract information from the Intergovernmental Organizations Database (IGOs), version 3, provided by the Correlates of War Project (Pevehouse et al. 2020).
The dataset (V3) includes information of 534 IGOs from 1816 to 2014, as well as membership information.
- Source: Intergovernmental Organizations (v3).
- Documentation and vignettes on https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/
Additionally, a distribution of the State System Membership (Correlates of War Project 2017) is included on this package.
Installation
Install igoR from CRAN:
install.packages("igoR")You can install the developing version from GitHub:
library(remotes)
install_github("dieghernan/igoR")Alternatively, you can install igoR using the r-universe:
# Install igoR in R:
install.packages("igoR", repos = c(
"https://dieghernan.r-universe.dev",
"https://cloud.r-project.org"
))Basic usage
Search an IGO by name:
Search all IGOs related with “sugar”:
library(igoR)
result_sugar <- igo_search("Sugar")| ionum | ioname | orgname | longorgname | label | sdate | deaddate | dead | integrated | replaced | igocode | version | accuracyofpre1965membershipdates | sourcesandnotes | imputed | political | social | economic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | AMSC | African/Malgasy Sugar Council | African and Malagasy Sugar Council | African and Malagasy Sugar Council | 1966 | 1977 | 1 | 0 | 0 | NA | 2.1 | Not applicable - created 1965 or later | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1920 | GLACSEC | Group of L/A & Carib. Sugar Exp. Countries | Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries | Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries | 1974 | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 0 | NA | 2.3 | Not applicable - created 1965 or later | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3130 | ISuC | Intl Sugar Council | International Sugar Council | International Sugar Council | 1937 | 1967 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 3.0 | Within 5 years | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4290 | SugU | Sugar Union | Sugar Union | Sugar Union | 1902 | 1913 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 3.0 | Completely accurate, except a few minor uncertainties | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
IGO members:
Composition of the European Economic Community over time:
eec_code <- igo_search("EEC", exact = TRUE)
# Founding
eec_init <- igo_members(eec_code$ioname, year = eec_code$sdate)| ioname | ccode | state | statenme | year | value | category | orgname |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EEC | 210 | netherlands | Netherlands | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 211 | belgium | Belgium | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 212 | luxembourg | Luxembourg | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 220 | france | France | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 260 | wgermany | German Federal Republic | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 325 | italy | Italy | 1958 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
EEC, members (1958)
# Latest date
eec_end <- igo_members(eec_code$ioname)| ioname | ccode | state | statenme | year | value | category | orgname |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EEC | 200 | uk | United Kingdom | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 205 | ireland | Ireland | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 210 | netherlands | Netherlands | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 211 | belgium | Belgium | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 212 | luxembourg | Luxembourg | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 220 | france | France | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 230 | spain | Spain | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 235 | portugal | Portugal | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 255 | germany | Germany | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 325 | italy | Italy | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 350 | greece | Greece | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
| EEC | 390 | denmark | Denmark | 1992 | 1 | Full Membership | European Economic Community |
EEC, members (1992)
Recommended packages
- countrycode for converting country names and codes across different systems (ISO3, Eurostat, World Bank, UN, FIPS/GEC, etc..)
- dplyr for data manipulation.
Citation
Hernangómez D (2024). igoR: Intergovernmental Organizations Database. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.igoR, https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users:
@Manual{R-igoR,
title = {{igoR}: Intergovernmental Organizations Database},
doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.igoR},
author = {Diego Hernangómez},
year = {2024},
version = {0.2.0},
url = {https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/},
abstract = {Tools to extract information from the Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO) Database , version 3, provided by the Correlates of War Project <https://correlatesofwar.org/>. See also Pevehouse, J. C. et al. (2020). Version 3 includes information from 1815 to 2014.},
}References
<div id="refs" class="references csl-bib-body hanging-indent" entry-spacing="0">
Correlates of War Project. 2017. “State System Membership List, V2016.”
Pevehouse, Jon CW, Timothy Nordstrom, Roseanne W McManus, and Anne
Spencer Jamison. 2020. “Tracking Organizations in the World: The
Correlates of War IGO Version 3.0 Datasets.” *Journal of Peace Research*
57 (3): 492–503. .