Description
Download Data from the World Inequality Database.
Description
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.
README.md
R package to download data from the WID.world database
This package downloads data from the online World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world) directly into R. The World Wealth and Income 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.
Installation
The package is not yet available on CRAN. But you can install the development version by typing:
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("world-inequality-database/wid-r-tool")
Usage
The package exports a single function download_wid(...). See ?download_wid for help.
Demo
See vignette("wid-demo"), or click here for a demonstration of the package.