https://github.com/ropengov/rqog

Download data from the Quality of Government Institute data
https://github.com/ropengov/rqog

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Download data from the Quality of Government Institute data

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropengov/rqog
• Owner: rOpenGov
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-12-05T12:22:04.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2026-02-26T09:30:31.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-02-26T13:18:08.018Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: data-package, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: http://ropengov.github.io/rqog/
• Size: 21.7 MB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# rqog-package: download data from the Quality of Government Institute data 

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status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/rqog)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rqog)

Download the latest and archived datasets from the [Quality of

Government Institute](https://qog.pol.gu.se/data) using the function

`read_qog()`. See

[`?read_qog`](http://ropengov.github.io/rqog/reference/read_qog.html)

for help, [package

vignette](http://ropengov.github.io/rqog/articles/rqog_tutorial.html)

for more examples and

[shiny.vaphana.com/rqog_app](https://shiny.vaphana.com/rqog_app/) for

interactive metadata shiny.

## Installation

``` r

remotes::install_github("ropengov/rqog")

```

## Use

**Download data**

``` r

library(rqog)

dat <- read_qog(which_data = "standard", data_type = "time-series")

```

**Browse metadata**

``` r

library(rqog)

meta_std_ts_2023[grepl("human development", meta_std_ts_2023$name, ignore.case = TRUE),]

#>          code                    name value label   class

#> 1416  iiag_hd       Human Development    NA   numeric

#> 1875 undp_hdi Human Development Index    NA   numeric

```

**Plot an indicator**

``` r

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(dat[!is.na(dat$undp_hdi),], 

       aes(x = year, y = undp_hdi, color = cname)) + 

  geom_line() + 

  theme(legend.position = "none")

```



Copyright (C) 2012-2023 Markus Kainu .

MIT-licence.

## Disclaimer

This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Quality

of Government Institute.