Access the Intergovernmental Organizations ('IGO') Database
Overview
Provides tools for searching, extracting and recoding the Intergovernmental Organizations ('IGO') Database (version 3), distributed by the Correlates of War Project https://correlatesofwar.org/. Includes 'IGO-year' and country-year membership data, state system data and functions for deriving 'dyad-year' joint membership results. For a description of the data, see Pevehouse, J. C. et al. (2020) doi:10.1177/0022343319881175.
- The minimum required **R** version is now 4.1.0.
igoR::states2024replacesstates2016with State System Membership data through December 2024.
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Health
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- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK13 OK2026-06-09
- WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
- OK14 OK2026-03-10
Documentation
The repository also keeps web-only articles.
- Help pages
- 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%9 run in a plain check (8 of them under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 92%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 90% with a bibliography file
- Get started with igoR HTML
- Mapping IGOs HTML
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- 78%
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Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2021-01-27
- Total releases
- 12 / 5 yrs
- License
- GPL (>= 3) OSI
- Copyright
- © 2000-2021 by the Correlates of War. See file COPYRIGHTS.
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.1.0
- Bundled data
- 412 KB / 3 files
- Download size
- 1.0 MB
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Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:
citation("igoR")The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.
The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.
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