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pressfreedom.data: Download and Process Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index Data

Download press freedom index data from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with period-aware encoding handling. Data are downloaded from the RSF website (<https://rsf.org/en/index>). Provides infrastructure for data cleaning and ISO 3166 standardization in downstream phases.

Version: 0.3.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: readr, here, rlang, countrycode, dplyr, stringr, cli, fs, glue, purrr, tibble, stringi
Suggests: usethis, knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2, tidyr, forcats, patchwork, scales, sf, rnaturalearth, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), covr
Published: 2026-08-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.pressfreedom.data (may not be active yet)
Author: Peter Baumgartner ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Peter Baumgartner <petzi53 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/petzi53/pressfreedom.data/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/petzi53/pressfreedom.data, https://www.peter-baumgartner.net/pressfreedom.data/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: pressfreedom.data citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: pressfreedom.data results

Documentation:

Reference manual: pressfreedom.data.html , pressfreedom.data.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started (source, R code)
Visualizing Press Freedom Trends (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): pressfreedom.data_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

Linking:

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These 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.