Code & data

Eight R packages turning closed institutional data into pipelines.

Open-source clients for Statistics Canada, the EU R&D Scoreboard, the Social Progress Index, global value chains and more — over 54,000 CRAN downloads — plus web apps, interactive books and geospatial data-science platforms.

R packages · 54,000+ CRAN downloads
github.com/warint →
CRAN · 29,619 downloads · ★30

statcanR ↗

Connect to Statistics Canada’s Web Data Service in R. Open economic data (former CANSIM tables, now Product IDs) as a data frame directly in your R environment — the most widely used of the packages.

CRAN · 14,840 downloads

spiR ↗

A wrapper for the Social Progress Imperative’s open datasets, including the Social Progress Index — data for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

CRAN · 10,077 downloads

iriR ↗

The EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard as a cross-section time-series dataset — 7,500+ innovative companies worldwide.

GitHub · 139,724 references

EpiBibR ↗

Epidemiology-based bibliography for R — the largest coronavirus-research dataset in R: 22 features across 139,724 references, built on open-science principles.

GitHub

gvcR ↗

Risks of disruption at major choke points worldwide — weather & climate, security & conflict, and political & institutional risk categories.

GitHub

corridoR ↗

The Northern Corridor project database — 20,000+ ship voyages and marine distances comparing routes through the Panama Canal and the Canadian Arctic.

GitHub

oxfoR ↗

The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) in R — 17 indicators of governmental responses across all countries.

GitHub · geospatial

shapeR ↗

Simplifies GIS mapping by giving access, through simple R functions, to shapefiles from different sources — the backbone of the geospatial (geoAI) work.

Web apps
EpiBibR ExploR — interactive coronavirus bibliography
statcanR ExploR — Statistics Canada data explorer
Anti-Trust Index — AI Transparency Institute
Platforms
GVC Digital Twin Lab — digital twin of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence trade & transport corridor; a $5.2M CIRANO initiative with Transport Canada
Mondo — international data platform for evidence-based decisions
nuance-R · drhector · R Shiny Docker-based platform · quantum simulations
Online interactive books

Économie industrielle avec R · Quantitative Methods in International Business with R · Machine Learning for International Business with R · Data Pipeline with R · Foundations in quantitative analysis for International Business with R — each with an embedded interactive coding platform.