wid: Download Data from the World Inequality Database
Tools to download data from the online World Inequality Database directly into R. The World Inequality
Database is an extensive source on the historical evolution of the
distribution of income and wealth both within and between countries.
It relies on the combined effort of an international network of over a
hundred researchers covering more than seventy countries from all continents.
| Version: |
0.0.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 2.10) |
| Imports: |
httr (≥ 1.2.1), base64enc (≥ 0.1), plyr (≥ 1.8.4), jsonlite (≥ 1.6.1) |
| Suggests: |
testthat (≥ 1.0.2), knitr (≥ 1.16), rmarkdown (≥ 1.6), dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), ggplot2 (≥ 2.2.1), scales (≥ 0.4.1), tidyverse (≥ 1.1.1) |
| Published: |
2026-02-20 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.wid (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Thomas Blanchet [aut],
Ignacio Flores [cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Ignacio Flores <stats at wid.world> |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
README |
| CRAN checks: |
wid results |
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