wid: Download Data from the World Inequality Database
Download data from the online World Inequality Database directly
into R. Data are retrieved from WID.world's online data service. 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: |
0.0.2 |
| 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: |
2026-07-08 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.wid |
| 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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