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rgho - Access WHO Global Health Observatory Data From R

rgho is an R package to access WHO GHO data from R via the Athena web service, an API providing a simple query interface to the World Health Organization's data and statistics content.

You can install:

  • the latest released version from CRAN with:
install.packages("rgho")
  • the latest development version from github with:
devtools::install_github("pierucci/rgho")

Main features

  • List available dimensions and codes with get_gho_dimensions() and get_gho_codes().
  • Download data with get_gho_data().

Documentation

  • Introduction in vignette("intro", package = "rgho").
  • List of GHO dimensions in vignette("dimensions", package = "rgho").
  • List of codes for the GHO dimension in vignette("codes-gho", package = "rgho").

Devs

Antoine Filipović-Pierucci, Kevin Zarca.

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install.packages('rgho')

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Version

0.1.0

License

GPL (>= 3)

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Maintainer

Antoine FilipovicPierucci

Last Published

June 12th, 2016

Functions in rgho (0.1.0)

get_attrs_

Get Dimension Attributes
filter_attrs

Returns GHO Codes for a Given Dimension
get_gho_dimensions

Returns Available GHO Dimensions
get_gho_data_

Returns GHO Data
get_gho_

GET a GHO URL
build_gho_url

Construct GHO request URL
parse_proxy_string

Parse Proxy IP From a Character String
search_gho

Search Codes or Dimensions Labels
build_gho

Check and Build a gho Object
get_proxy_list

Find Local Proxy Settings