F.S.Bellelli: The package countries is now on CRAN

Francesco S. Bellelli

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.

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}
}