Downloads and Parses World Prison Brief Data • prisonbrief

The goal of prisonbrief is to download, clean and return data from the World Prison Brief website. The World Prison Brief is an online database compiled by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research with information on prison systems around the world. Data currently cover 223 jurisdictions and have been collected from public sources. The prisonbrief package provides easy-to-use functions to convert WPB data into a format convenient for statistical analysis.InstallationThe stable version of prisonbrief is available on CRAN. To install it, just type:install.packages("prisonbrief")You can install the most recent development version of prisonbrief using the devtools package. First, you need to install the devtools package with the following code:if(!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")Then you need to load devtools and install prisonbrief from its GitHub repository:library(devtools)devtools::install_github("danilofreire/prisonbrief")If you are using Linux, you may need to type t...