https://github.com/piersyork/owidr

An R Package for Importing Data from Our World in Data
https://github.com/piersyork/owidr

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An R Package for Importing Data from Our World in Data

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/piersyork/owidr
• Owner: piersyork
• License: other
• Created: 2021-06-28T18:06:02.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-29T12:50:58.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T19:41:47.907Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: data, data-visualisation, economics, r, r-package
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.66 MB
• Stars: 115
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 11
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • License: LICENSE

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---

title: "owidR"

output: github_document

always_allow_html: true

---

```{r, echo = FALSE, message=FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "##",

  fig.path = "inst/images/", fig.width=8.5, fig.asp=0.55, fig.align='center',

  message = FALSE

)

library(ggplot2)

ggplot2::theme_set(

  theme_minimal(base_family = "serif") %+replace%

    theme(text = element_text(colour = "#373737", size = 18),

          plot.title = element_text(size = "22", hjust = 0, vjust = 3.2, face = "bold"),

          plot.subtitle = element_text(hjust = 0, vjust = 3.5),

          plot.title.position = "plot",

          plot.caption.position = "plot",

          plot.caption = element_text(hjust = 0, size = 14, vjust = -1),

          legend.position = "right",

          axis.text = element_text(face = "plain"),

          axis.title.x = element_blank(),

          legend.title = element_blank(),

          panel.grid.major = element_line(linetype = "dashed"),

          panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),

          plot.margin = margin(11, 15, 8, 0),

          axis.line.x = element_line(colour = "#8e8e8e"),

          axis.ticks = element_line(colour = "#8e8e8e"))

)

```

![CRAN downloads](http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/badges/grand-total/owidR) [![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/owidR)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=owidR) 

[![R-CMD-check](https://github.com/piersyork/owidR/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/piersyork/owidR/actions/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml)

This package acts as an interface to [Our World in Data](https://ourworldindata.org/) datasets, allowing for an easy way to search through data used in over 3,000 charts and load them into the R environment.

## Installation

To install from CRAN:

```{r eval=FALSE}

install.packages("owidR")

```

To install the development version from GitHub:

```{r eval = FALSE}

devtools::install_github("piersyork/owidR")

```

## Using the package

The main function in owidR is `owid()`, which takes a chart id and returns a data.table of the corresponding OWID dataset. To search for chart ids you can use `owid_search()` to list all the chart ids that match a keyword or regular expression.

## Example

Lets use the core functions to get data on how human rights have changed over time. First by searching for charts on human rights.

```{r example, eval = TRUE, message = FALSE}

library(owidR)

owid_search("human rights")

```

Let's use the v-dem human rights index dataset.

```{r example2, eval = TRUE, message = FALSE}

rights <- owid("human-rights-index-vdem")

rights

```

ggplot2 makes it easy to visualise our data.

```{r plot}

library(ggplot2)

library(dplyr)

rights |> 

  filter(entity %in% c("United Kingdom", "France", "United States")) |> 

  ggplot(aes(year, civ_libs_vdem_owid, colour = entity)) +

  geom_line()

```

## COVID-19 Data

You can quickly download world covid-19 data, including vaccination rates, using `owid_covid()`.

```{r covid}

covid <- owid_covid()

str(covid)

```

## To-do

-   [ ] Add function to load multiple country datasets into one dataframe

-   [ ] Add caching of data (inc. backend)

-   [x] Remove interactive plotting to reduce dependencies

-   [ ] Create way to import owid explorers