worldbank {rpanel}

Data on CO2 emissions, GDP, life.expectancy and population for the countries of the world between 1960 and 2007

Description

Loading this file makes the dataframes co2.emissions, gdp, life.expectancy and population available. These contain the CO2 emissions, gross domestic product, life expectancy and population data for each country of the world (rows indexed by rownames) for the years 1960-2007.

These data are provided by the World Bank through the database at http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators The data are also used use in the Google Public Data Explorer http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory and by the Gapminder project http://www.gapminder.org )

The data are used in the rp.bubbleplot example script.

References

rpanel: Simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package. Journal of Statistical Software, 17, issue 9.

Examples

## Not run: 
   rp.bubbleplot(log(gdp), log(co2.emissions), 1960:2007, size = population, 
      col = life.expectancy,
      interpolate = TRUE, hscale = 1.5, vscale = 1.5)

## End(Not run)