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This package provides functionality to access and manage the application programming interface (API) of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) ReliefWeb disaster events. It requires a minimal number of dependencies. The function disastr.api() makes it easy to retrieve a user-defined sample of disaster events from ReliefWeb, enabling a seamless integration of regular data updates into the research work flow.
You can install the released version of disastr.api from CRAN with:
You can install the development version from GitLab with:
Using disastr.api is straight forward. To download data on, for example, the last 20 disaster events, you can supply:
library(disastr.api) # loads the package
#>
#> The disastR.api package may be cited as:
#> Dworschak, Christoph. 2021. "Disastr.api: Wrapper for the UN OCHA
#> ReliefWeb Disaster Events API." R package. CRAN version 1.0.6.
my.data.frame <- disastr.api( # stores retrieved disaster events in object my.data.frame
limit = 20)
#> Your disaster event data request was successful.
head(my.data.frame) # returns the first five observations of the ACLED sample
#> id date country
#> 1 51977 2024-04-23T03:49:27+00:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina
#> 2 51970 2024-04-18T18:21:19+00:00 Indonesia
#> 3 51963 2024-04-15T07:32:14+00:00 Kenya
#> 4 51957 2024-04-10T06:17:25+00:00 Kazakhstan
#> 5 51953 2024-04-06T00:54:52+00:00 Cuba
#> 6 51951 2024-04-04T02:16:22+00:00 Uruguay
#> name event
#> 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Measles Outbreak - Feb 2024 Epidemic
#> 2 Indonesia: Ruang Volcano - Apr 2024 Volcano
#> 3 Kenya: Floods - Apr 2024 Flash Flood, Flood
#> 4 Kazakhstan: Floods - Mar 2024 Flood
#> 5 Cuba: Floods - Mar 2024 Flood
#> 6 Uruguay: Floods - Mar 2024 Flood
#> status url
#> 1 ongoing https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51977
#> 2 alert https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51970
#> 3 ongoing https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51963
#> 4 ongoing https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51957
#> 5 ongoing https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51953
#> 6 ongoing https://reliefweb.int/taxonomy/term/51951These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.