get.api.regions {acled.api}

ACLED API region support function

Description

List of region names and codes as they are supplied by the ACLED API user guide.

Usage

get.api.regions()

Details

This single-purpose support function does not take arguments. It is set up as a convenient way to return region names and region codes to be used in the acled.api() main function's region argument.

Value

A list of length 2.

1. A data frame object containing ACLED region names and codes.
   

2. A string with version information.

Author(s)

Christoph Dworschak
Website: https://www.chrisdworschak.com/

References

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) API user guide
Clionadh Raleigh, Andrew Linke, Havard Hegre and Joakim Karlsen. 2010. "Introducing ACLED-Armed Conflict Location and Event Data." Journal of Peace Research 47 (5): 651-660.