{manydata} is the central package in the many packages
universe aimed at collecting, connecting, and correcting network data
across issue-domains of global governance. To assist users in doing so,
{manydata} contains functions that enable users to download
and manipulate data easily.
{manydata} offers users access to all of the tested data
in the various ‘many packages’ available, for use in analyses of global
governance and beyond. A special feature of the ‘many packages’ is that
it is not ‘opinionated’ - instead of offering a single, supposedly
authoritative version of global governance events, the packages in the
many packages universe gather well-regarded datasets in each
issue-domain into three-dimensional ‘datacubes’. The chief advantage of
this for global governance researchers is that it enables a quick and
easy way to check the robustness of their results using different
formulations of the study population or concept specification. The
‘datacube’ structure has a specific coding system for the variables
across the datasets. For more details, please see the vignette.
The easiest way to install {manydata} is directly from
CRAN.
install.packages("manydata")The development version of the package {manydata} can
also be downloaded from GitHub.
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("globalgov/manydata"){manydata} connects users to other packages that help
fill global governance researchers’ data needs. The
get_packages() function can be used to discover the ‘many
packages’ currently available.
library(manydata)
get_packages()Please see the
website for more information about how to use
{manydata}.
For more information for developers and data contributors to ‘many
packages’, please see {manypkgs} the website.