owid {owidR}

Get data from Our World in Data

Description

Get a dataset used in an OWID chart.

Usage

owid(chart_id = NULL, rename = NULL, tidy.date = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

chart_id

The chart_id as returned by owid_search

rename

Rename the value column. Currently only works if their is just one value column.

tidy.date

If TRUE then a year column that should be a date column will automatically detected and transformed. If FALSE then the Year column will be kept as is. Defaults to TRUE.

...

Not to be used.

Value

A data.table of an owid dataset with the added class 'owid'.

Examples

owid_search("emissions")
emissions <- owid("per-capita-ghg-emissions")