This package was removed from CRAN on 2025-10-01. Its history is shown below.

Reason: requires archived package 'SouthKoreAPIs'

Details below reflect version 0.1.0, its last release before removal.

Asiaverse

0.1.0

A Metapackage for Asian Countries RESTful APIs and Curated Datasets

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Overview

About

Maintained by Renzo Caceres Rossi1 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A metapackage that brings together a comprehensive collection of R packages providing access to APIs functions and curated datasets from China, Japan, South Korea, India, and Indonesia. It includes real-time and historical data through public RESTful APIs (Nager.Date, World Bank API, REST Countries API) and extensive curated collections of open datasets covering economics, demographics, public health, environmental data, natural disasters, political indicators, and social metrics. Designed to provide researchers, analysts, educators, and data scientists with centralized access to Asian data sources, this metapackage facilitates reproducible research, comparative analysis, and teaching applications focused on these five major Asian countries. Included packages: - 'ChinAPIs': APIs functions and curated datasets for China and Hong Kong covering air quality, demographics, input-output tables, epidemiology, political structure, and social indicators. - 'JapanAPIs': APIs functions and curated datasets for Japan including natural disasters, economic production, vehicle industry, air quality, demographics, and administrative divisions. - 'SouthKoreAPIs': APIs functions and curated datasets for South Korea covering public health outbreaks, social surveys, elections, economic indicators, natural disasters, climate data, energy consumption, cultural information, and financial markets. - 'IndiAPIs': APIs functions and curated datasets for India with comprehensive collections and real-time access to economic, demographic, and geopolitical indicators. - 'IndonesiAPIs': APIs functions and curated datasets for Indonesia covering holidays, economic indicators, consumer prices, poverty probability, food prices by region, tourism destinations, and minimum wage statistics. For more information on the APIs, see: 'Nager.Date' https://date.nager.at/Api, 'World Bank API' https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392, and 'REST Countries API' https://restcountries.com/.

Install

R (source archive)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/Asiaverse/Asiaverse_0.1.0.tar.gz"
pkgFile <- "Asiaverse_0.1.0.tar.gz"
download.file(url, pkgFile)
install.packages(pkgFile, type = "source", repos = NULL)

This package is no longer on CRAN, so install.packages() cannot fetch it by name. This downloads the last archived source (0.1.0) and builds it locally. Install its dependencies first, and note that building from source needs the usual compiler toolchain.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lightbluetitan/asiaverse")

Development version from lightbluetitan/asiaverse. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-asiaverse

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-Asiaverse

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Tests · ratio 0.51

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Coverage

100%

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Documentation

READMEYes · 684 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (6)

R >= 4.1.0ChinAPIs JapanAPIs SouthKoreAPIs IndiAPIs IndonesiAPIs

Imports (2)

cliutils

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none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Renzo Caceres Rossi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Renzo Caceres Rossi

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-10-01
requires archived package 'SouthKoreAPIs'
0.1.0
2025-09-16
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

Total releases: 1
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
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