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Latamverse

The Latamverse is a metapackage that brings together a comprehensive collection of R packages providing access to APIs functions and curated datasets from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. It integrates both real-time and historical data retrieved through public RESTful APIs, such as Nager.Date, World Bank API, and REST Countries API, while also offering extensive curated collections of open datasets covering economics, demographics, public health, environmental data, political indicators, social metrics, and cultural information.

Installation

To install the Latamverse package, use the following:


# Install from CRAN 

install.packages("Latamverse")

# Then load the package:

library(Latamverse)

Using the Latamverse() Function

Once the package is loaded, you can call the Latamverse() function to display the list of included packages and their versions:

Important Note on Detaching Packages

Latamverse imports and depends on several subpackages. Therefore, you cannot detach an individual subpackage (like PeruAPIs) while Latamverse is still loaded.

Example of an Error 


# This will raise an error

detach("package:PeruAPIs", unload = TRUE)

Correct Way to Detach

To properly unload a subpackage, you must first detach Latamverse:


# First detach the metapackage

detach("package:Latamverse", unload = TRUE)

# Now you can safely detach the subpackage

detach("package:PeruAPIs", unload = TRUE)

By installing the Latamverse package this will attach the following packages to your R session:

  • ArgentinAPI

  • BrazilDataAPI

  • ChileDataAPI

  • ColombiAPI

  • PeruAPIs

Included Packages in the Latamverse

ArgentinAPI

The ArgentinAPI package provides a comprehensive and unified interface to access open data about Argentina from multiple public RESTful APIs, including ArgentinaDatos API, REST Countries API, and World Bank API. Through these sources, users can easily retrieve information on exchange rates, inflation, political figures, national holidays, economic indicators, and general country-level statistics.

BrazilDataAPI

The BrazilDataAPI package provides a unified interface to access open data from the BrasilAPI, REST Countries API, Nager.Date API, and World Bank API, with a focus on Brazil. It allows users to easily retrieve up-to-date information on postal codes, banks, economic indicators, holidays, company registrations, international country-level data, public holidays information, and economic development data relevant to Brazil.

ChileDataAPI

The ChileDataAPI package provides a unified interface to access open data from multiple public RESTful APIs, including the FINDIC API, the REST Countries API, the World Bank API, and Nager.Date. With a focus on Chile, the package enables users to retrieve real-time or historical data such as financial indicators (UF, UTM, Dollar, Euro, Yen, Copper price per pound, Bitcoin, IPSA index), holidays, and international demographic and geopolitical information.

ColombiAPI

The ColombiAPI package provides a unified interface to access open data from the API-Colombia, World Bank API, Nager.Date API, and the REST Countries API, with a focus on Colombia. It allows users to retrieve up-to-date or historical information on topics such as geographic locations, cultural attractions, economic indicators, demographic data, national holidays, and key country-level details.

PeruAPIs

The PeruAPIs package provides a unified interface to access open data from the World Bank API, Nager.Date API, and the REST Countries API, with a focus on Peru. It allows users to retrieve up-to-date or historical information on topics such as economic indicators, demographics, national holidays, and key geopolitical details.