pressfreedom.data: Download and Process Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index Data
Download press freedom index data from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with period-aware encoding handling. Data are downloaded from the RSF website (<https://rsf.org/en/index>). Provides infrastructure for data cleaning and ISO 3166 standardization in downstream phases.
| Version: | 0.3.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | readr, here, rlang, countrycode, dplyr, stringr, cli, fs, glue, purrr, tibble, stringi |
| Suggests: | usethis, knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2, tidyr, forcats, patchwork, scales, sf, rnaturalearth, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), covr |
| Published: | 2026-08-24 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.pressfreedom.data (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Peter Baumgartner 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Peter Baumgartner <petzi53 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/petzi53/pressfreedom.data/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/petzi53/pressfreedom.data, https://www.peter-baumgartner.net/pressfreedom.data/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | pressfreedom.data citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | pressfreedom.data results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | pressfreedom.data.html , pressfreedom.data.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Getting Started (source, R code) Visualizing Press Freedom Trends (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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