A package for country data

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I am working on an R package designed to quickly wrangle, merge and explore country data


Author

Affiliation

Francesco S. Bellelli

 

Published

June 19, 2021

Citation

Bellelli, 2021


The development version of the package is available here.


As an economist, I often work with country-level data coming from different sources. GDP series from the IMF, monetary data from central banks, trade data from WTO, CO2 emissions from the IEA, survey data from national agencies, etc.. Pooling all this data together is often a laborious task because countries’ naming conventions are never the same.

To make things easier, I am writing an R package to deal with this type of data. Ideally, the user should be able to merge country data files with a unique line of command. The package will offer functionalities to:

Footnotes

    Citation

    For attribution, please cite this work as

    Bellelli (2021, June 20). F.S.Bellelli: A package for country data. Retrieved from https://fbellelli.com/posts/2021-06-20-a-package-for-country-data/

    BibTeX citation

    @misc{bellelli2021a,
      author = {Bellelli, Francesco S.},
      title = {F.S.Bellelli: A package for country data},
      url = {https://fbellelli.com/posts/2021-06-20-a-package-for-country-data/},
      year = {2021}
    }