The hardware and bandwidth for this mirror is donated by dogado GmbH, the Webhosting and Full Service-Cloud Provider. Check out our Wordpress Tutorial.
If you wish to report a bug, or if you are interested in having us mirror your free-software or open-source project, please feel free to contact us at mirror[@]dogado.de.

widr 0.1.0

Initial CRAN release.

Download

• download_wid(): download data from the WID API; returns a wid_df, a classed data.frame compatible with dplyr and ggplot2 without unwrapping
• download(): alias for download_wid()

Code grammar

• wid_validate(), wid_is_valid(): validate WID code components; the latter returns a scalar logical without throwing
• wid_encode(), wid_decode(): convert between variable codes (e.g. "sptinc992j") and named component lists
• wid_search(): search any of the six reference tables by regex

Post-download helpers

• wid_tidy(): decode variable codes into human-readable columns; coerceyear to integer and value to double
• wid_convert(): currency conversion via WID exchange-rate series; supports "lcu", "usd", "eur", "gbp", "ppp", "yppp"
• wid_metadata(): fetch source and methodological information for the variables in a wid_df

Inequality measures

• wid_gini(): Gini coefficient from a share series
• wid_top_share(): top fractile income or wealth share
• wid_percentile_ratio(): percentile ratio (e.g. P90/P10) from a threshold series

Plotting

• wid_plot_timeseries(): time-series line chart; returns a ggplot object
• wid_plot_compare(): cross-country bar or point chart for a single year
• wid_plot_lorenz(): Lorenz curve

Query objects

• wid_query(): build a reusable query object
• wid_filter(): update query fields
• wid_fetch(): execute a query

Cache

• wid_cache(): get, set, list, or clear cached API responses
• wid_cache_list(): list cached files
• wid_cache_clear(): remove all cached files

Reference tables

Six lookup tables synchronised from https://wid.world/codes-dictionary/:wid_series_types, wid_concepts, wid_ages, wid_pop_types, wid_countries, wid_percentiles.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
Health stats visible at Monitor.