restcountriesr

A simple wrapper of the rest countries restful API - http://restcountries.eu/

Installing restcountries

The restcountries package can be downloaded from Github using the remotes package which allows easy installation of R packages from remote repositories such as Github.

install.packages("remotes")
library(remotes)
remotes::install_github("denironyx/restcountries")

Rest Countries endpoints

The restcountriesr datapackage can be filter by the following.

• Search by All
• Search by Name or Full Name
• Country's Code
• Country's Currency
• Search by Capital City
• Search by Calling Code
• Search by Region

Usage example

library(restcountriesr)
library(dplyr)

df <- rc_all()

##List of columns
parameter <- c("country_name", "capital", "iso2c", "iso3c", "calling_codes", "lat", "lon", "region", "currencies", "population")

# The first 6 rows of the result queried
df %>% 
  select(all_of(parameter)) %>% 
  head()

Attributes that can be passed in the filters list.

• topLevelDomain
• alpha2Code
• alpha3Code
• currencies
• capital
• callingCodes
• altSpellings
• relevance
• region
• subregion
• translations
• population
• latlng
• demonym
• area
• gini
• timezones
• borders
• nativeName
• name
• numericCode
• languages
• flag
• regionalBlocs
• cioc