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@devel")

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("a-intro", "rgho").
• List of GHO dimensions in vignette("b-dimensions", "rgho").
• List of codes for the GHO dimension in vignette("c-codes-gho", "rgho").
• List of codes for the COUNTRY dimension in vignette("d-country", "rgho").
• Details about how requests are performed in vignette("e-details", "rgho").

Dev

Antoine Filipović-Pierucci