Download Colombian Demographic, Climate and Geospatial Data
Overview
Downloads wrangled Colombian socioeconomic, geospatial,population and climate data from DANE https://www.dane.gov.co/ (National Administrative Department of Statistics) and IDEAM (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies). It solves the problem of Colombian data being issued in different web pages and sources by using functions that allow the user to select the desired database and download it without having to do the exhausting acquisition process.
Documentation
- Updated disclaimers regarding official data sources.
- Added a **Design** **Vignette** to provide information regarding the package's design decisions.
- Updated lifecycle status to **Stable**.
From NEWS.md in the release
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Health
- OK13 OK2026-08-05
- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK14 OK2026-03-10
Documentation
- Help pages
- 48 (25 internal)
- Examples that run
- 65%13 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition) · 7 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Downloads
Repository
- PRs merged (all time)
- 97%
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
- 28
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
- 0
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17 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository
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GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-02-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow
pkgdown site last built 2025-02-13, before release 1.0.0 (2025-03-06)
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2024-09-17
- Total releases
- 3 / 2 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.3.0
- Bundled data
- 14 KB / 3 files
- Download size
- 1.1 MB
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