[R-sig-Geo] Example country data to plot

[Matthew Landis]

Try the World Development Indicators from the World Bank.  You can  
download the whole thing as a giant CSV file without too much trouble  
and there are hundreds of variables at the national scale.

Sent from my iPod -- that's why it's short and misspelled.


On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:14 AM, "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <muenchen at utk.edu 
 > wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a data set of miscellaneous country measures like  
> population, education, crime, etc. The particular variables aren't  
> that important. I'll use the data for maps and non-spatial plots  
> such as bar plots, scatter plots, etc. If all goes well it'll end up  
> in a book, so I either need to be able to distribute the data or  
> (much better) simply point to a data frame in an R package already  
> on CRAN if I can find one.
>
> The UN Data at http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx?d=UNESCO provides  
> plenty of variables that would work and it's re-distributable, but  
> each topic is in a separate file and in a slightly different format  
> making a merger a fair amount of work. Does anyone know of an  
> existing file I can use?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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