refugees

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UNHCR Refugee Population Statistics Database

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Overview

About

Maintained by Janis KreuderFirst published 2023-07-0810 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The Refugee Population Statistics Database published by The Office of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) contains information about forcibly displaced populations spanning more than 70 years of statistical activities. It covers displaced populations such as refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people, including their demographics. Stateless people are also included, most of who have never been displaced. The database also reflects the different types of solutions for displaced populations such as repatriation or resettlement. More information on the data and methodology can be found on the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("refugees", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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

Development version from PopulationStatistics/refugees. 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-refugees

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-refugees

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-refugees

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.76

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Repository

GitHub ↗ populationstatistics/refugees

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License CC-BY-4.0 · 69 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (1)

tibble

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Suggests (1)

testthat

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Reverse dependencies

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unhcrthemes

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 530 (55%)Rd 426 (45%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 2 max
Test cases: 27 / 0.76 per code line

Test coverage

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Complexity

2 avg / 2 max

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Janis Kreuder

Maintainer · added in 2025.06.0

Authors (2)

Ahmadou Dicko

Author

Hisham Galal

Author

UNHCR

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-07-08
Total releases: 10 / 3 yrs
License: CC BY 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 9 files
Download size: 3.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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