rOpenGov / rqog

Download data from the Quality of Government Institute data

rqog-package: download data from the Quality of Government Institute data

Download the latest and archived datasets from the Quality of Government Institute using the function read_qog(). See ?read_qog for help, package vignette for more examples and shiny.vaphana.com/rqog_app for interactive metadata shiny.

Installation

remotes::install_github("ropengov/rqog")

Use

Download data

library(rqog)
dat <- read_qog(which_data = "standard", data_type = "time-series")

Browse metadata

library(rqog)
meta_std_ts_2023[grepl("human development", meta_std_ts_2023$name, ignore.case = TRUE),]
#>          code                    name value label   class
#> 1416  iiag_hd       Human Development    NA  <NA> numeric
#> 1875 undp_hdi Human Development Index    NA  <NA> numeric

Plot an indicator

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(dat[!is.na(dat$undp_hdi),], 
       aes(x = year, y = undp_hdi, color = cname)) + 
  geom_line() + 
  theme(legend.position = "none")

Copyright (C) 2012-2023 Markus Kainu [e-mail]. MIT-licence.

Disclaimer

This package is in no way officially related to or endorsed by Quality of Government Institute.