emdatr: Global Disaster Losses from the EMDAT database Using R
The EMDAT database provides valuable information on human
and financial losses from natural disasters around the world. Some
of the issues with the EMDAT data are lack of entire data
accessibility, static and inconsistent summary reports, and the
lack of auxiliary financial and demographic data. The emdatr
package addresses some of these issues. Data from EMDAT was downloaded
via the web (http://www.emdat.be/database) and cleaned and
enhanced. emdatr provides a sample of this cleaned and
enhanced data. Also, emdatr provides functionality to access
the entire cleaned and enhanced EMDAT data. The examples provided in
the vignette demonstrate the functionality provided by emdatr.
The goal of emdatr is to promote the use of EMDAT data, bring
transparency to the data, shed light on the limitations of the data,
and make the analysis of the data easier through the R language and
the plethora of open source packages built around it.
| Version: |
0.2 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.0.2) |
| Imports: |
RCurl |
| Suggests: |
ggplot2, plyr |
| Published: |
2014-05-13 |
| Author: |
Gopi Goteti |
| Maintainer: |
Gopi Goteti <my.ration.shop at gmail.com> |
| License: |
GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
emdatr results |
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