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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://www.rstudio.com/rviews/2017/02/17/january-new-data-packages/"> RStudio</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>

<p>by Joseph Rickert</p>
<p>As <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rstudio.com/rviews/2017/01/06/10000-cran-packages/">forecast</a>, the number of R packages hosted on CRAN exceeded 10,000 in January. Dirk Eddelbuettel, who tracks what’s happening on CRAN with his <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/cranberries/">CRANberries</a> site, called <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=hurricaneexposure">hurricaneexposure</a> the 10,000th package in a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/eddelbuettel/status/825140310036578304">tweet</a> on January 27th.</p>
<p>hurricaneexposure was one of two hundred and six new packages that arrived on CRAN in January. Approximately 10% of these packages have to do with providing access to data in by some means or another. Some packages contain the data sets, some provide wrappers to APIs, and at least one package provides code to scrape data from a site. The following 17 packages are picks for data-related packages for January 2017. I will select packages in other categories in a follow-up post.</p>
<h2>Data Packages</h2>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/elevatr/">elevatr</a> v0.1.1: Provides access to several databases that provide elevation data, including <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mapzen.com/documentation/elevation/elevation-service/">Mapzen Elevation Service</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://mapzen.com/documentation/terrain-tiles/">Mapzen Terrain Service</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/terrain/">Amazon Terrain Tiles</a>, and the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://ned.usgs.gov/epqs/">USGS Elevation Point Query Service</a>. There is a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/elevatr/vignettes/introduction_to_elevatr.html">vignette</a>.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/epidata/">epidata</a> v0.1.0: Provides tools to retrieve data from the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.epi.org/">Economic Policy Institute</a>. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/hrbrmstr/epidata">README</a> shows how to use the package.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/europop/">europop</a> v0.3: Contains a data set giving the populations of all European cities with at least 10,000 inhabitants during the period 1500-1800.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/fivethirtyeight/">fivethirtyeight</a> v0.1.0: Provides the data, code, and interactive visualizations behind <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/">FiveThirtyEight</a> Stories. There is a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/fivethirtyeight/vignettes/bechdel.html">vignette</a> that provides an example of a data analysis, and a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/fivethirtyeight/vignettes/fivethirtyeight.html">list of data sets</a> that are included.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/getCRUCLdata/">getCRUCLdata</a> v.1.1: Provides functions that automate downloading and importing climatology data from University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/">(CRU)</a>. There is a <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/getCRUCLdata/vignettes/getCRUCLdata.html">vignette</a> to get you started.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/hurricaneexposure/">hurricaneexposure</a> v0.0.1: Allows users to create time series of tropical storm exposure histories for chosen counties for a number of hazard metrics (wind, rain, distance from the storm, etc.). The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/hurricaneexposure/vignettes/hurricaneexposure.html">vignette</a> provides an overview.<br>
<img alt="" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/hurricane.png?w=456" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/metScanR/metScanR.pdf">metScanR</a> v0.0.1: Provides functions for mapping and gathering meteorological data from various US surface networks: COOP, USCRN, USRCRN, AL-USRCRN, ASOS, AWOS, SNOTEL, SNOTELLITE, SCAN, SNOW, and NEON.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/mglR/">mglR</a> v0.1.0: Provides tools to download and organize large-scale, publicly available genomic studies on a candidate gene scale. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/mglR/vignettes/mglR-vignette.html">vignette</a> shows how to use the package.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/nzpullover/">nzpullover</a> v0.0.2: Contains data sets of driving offences and fines in New Zealand between 2009 and 2016, originally published by the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/road-policing-driver-offence-data-january-2009-december-2016">New Zealand Police</a>.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/owmr/">owmr</a> v0.7.2: Provides a wrapper for the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://openweathermap.org/">OpenWeatherMap</a> API.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/PeriodicTable/">PeriodicTable</a> v0.1.1: Contains a data set of the properties of chemical elements.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/pwt9/">pwt9</a> v9.0-0: Contains the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/">Penn World Table 9</a>, which provides information on relative levels of income, output, inputs, and productivity for 182 countries between 1950 and 2014.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rdwd/">rdwd</a> v0.7.0: Provides functions to obtain <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.dwd.de/EN/climate_environment/cdc/cdc.html">climate data</a> from the German Weather Service, Deutscher Wetterdienst, (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.dwd.de/DE/Home/home_node.html">DWD</a>). There is a vignette on <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rdwd/vignettes/mapDWD.html">Weather Stations</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rdwd/vignettes/rdwd.html">another</a> showing how to use the package.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rwars/">rwars</a> v1.0.0: Provides functions to retrieve and reformat data from the ‘Star Wars’ API <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://swapi.co/">SWAPI</a>. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rwars/vignettes/rwars.html">vignette</a> shows how to use the package.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/WikidataQueryServiceR/">wikidataQueryServiceR</a> v0.1.0: Provides an API Client Library for <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service">Wikidata Query Service</a>, which provides a way for tools to query <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page">Wikidata</a> via <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL">SPARQL</a>. See the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/WikidataQueryServiceR/README.html">README</a> for how to use it.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/wikilake/">wikilake</a> v0.1: Provides functions to scrape metadata about lakes from Wikipedia. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/wikilake/vignettes/scrape_michigan_lakes.html">vignette</a> fetches data from Michigan lakes.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/worrms/">worrms</a> v0.1.0: Provides a client for the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.marinespecies.org/">World Register of Marine Species</a>. The <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/worrms/vignettes/worrms_vignette.html">vignette</a> shows how to use the package.</p>
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