F.S.Bellelli: A package for country data

Francesco S. Bellelli

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:

Convert country names to a common nomenclature (e.g. M49 standard or ISO-3 codes)
Translate country names to different languages
Merge country data in a unique table by recognising and matching different country nomenclatures
Support the merging of country data with multiple identifiers (e.g. panel data or country-sector data)
Easily download and merge data from online public data (e.g. World Bank data, FRED, etc.)
Automatically generate interactive visualisations to explore country data

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}
}