The tidycountries package provides a comprehensive and user-friendly interface for accessing, manipulating, and analyzing country-level data from around the world. It allows users to retrieve detailed information on countries, including names, regions, subregions, continents, populations, currencies, calling codes, and more, all in a tidy data format. The package is designed to work seamlessly within the tidyverse ecosystem, making it easy to filter, arrange, and visualize country-level data in R.
Why tidycountries:
The world is a diverse and complex place, and having reliable and accessible country-level data is crucial for many analyses. Whether you’re working on a global research project, developing a visualization, or simply need to query country data for your application, tidycountries aims to simplify these tasks. By providing country data in a tidy format compatible with the tidyverse ecosystem, tidycountries allows users to seamlessly integrate and manipulate country data.
Installation
You can install the tidycountries package from CRAN using the following command:
install.packages("tidycountries")
# you can also install the package directly using `devtools`
devtools::install_github("denironyx/tidycountries")