hdr (version 0.1)

get_data: Fetch data from the UNDP Human Development Report

Description

Fetch data from the UNDP Human Development Report

Usage

get_data(indicator = NULL, country = NULL, year = NULL)

Arguments

indicator

Numerical or character vector with the indicator id (see details)

country

Character vector

year

Numerical vector (see details for which years are available)

The function fetches data from the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report API.

A dimension can be left as NULL (the default) to get all data for that dimension. The package includes a data frame (hdr_indicators) with the IDs and human-readable names of the indicators.

If the year parameter is not left as NULL, it must be on of the following: 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Value

A data frame`F

Examples

# Get the Human Development Index for Germany in 2013
df <- get_data(indicator = 137506, country = "DEU", year = 2013)
head(df)

# Leave a dimension as NULL (default) to get all values for that dimension
# e.g. all countries and all year for a specific indicator:
df <- get_data(103606)
head(df)

# A data frame with id and indicator names
head(hdr_indicators)