widr: Interface to the World Inequality Database (WID)

Interface to the World Inequality Database (WID) API <https://wid.world>. Downloads distributional national accounts data with filters for country, year, percentile, age group, and population type. Includes code validation and reference tables. Independent implementation unaffiliated with the World Inequality Lab (WIL) or the Paris School of Economics.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: base64enc, jsonlite, digest, ggplot2, httr2, scales, tools, utils
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), covr, knitr, rmarkdown, withr
Published: 2026-03-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.widr (may not be active yet)
Author: Cheryl Isabella Lim [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Cheryl Isabella Lim <cheryl.academic at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/cherylisabella/widr/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/cherylisabella/widr
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: widr results

Documentation:

Reference manual: widr.html , widr.pdf
Vignettes: WID Code Dictionary (source, R code)
Getting started with widr (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: widr_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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