The package countries is now on CRAN

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After a year of development, I am happy to annouce that my package can now be downloaded directly from R’s official repository. And it has some cool new functionalities!


Author

Affiliation

Francesco S. Bellelli

 

Published

Sept. 23, 2023

Citation

Bellelli, 2023


In practical terms, it means that you can now download and load the package countries simply with the commands:

install.packages("countries")
library(countries)

This official release also coincides with some major additions to the package. For example, the function country_info allows to download information from the countries REST API and the function quick_map makes it super easy to produce country chloropleth maps thanks to fuzzy matching of country names. Here, have a look at how easy is to get information on which side of the road people drive in every country, and plot it on a map:

# downloading information on driving side
example_data <- country_info(fields = c("car"))

# make a map
quick_map(example_data, plot_col = "car.side")

For more information on the package and the new functionalities, consult the website of the package.

Footnotes

    Citation

    For attribution, please cite this work as

    Bellelli (2023, Sept. 24). F.S.Bellelli: The package countries is now on CRAN. Retrieved from https://fbellelli.com/posts/2023-09-24-the-package-countries-is-now-on-cran/

    BibTeX citation

    @misc{bellelli2023the,
      author = {Bellelli, Francesco S.},
      title = {F.S.Bellelli: The package countries is now on CRAN},
      url = {https://fbellelli.com/posts/2023-09-24-the-package-countries-is-now-on-cran/},
      year = {2023}
    }