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igoR

The goal of igoR is to provide access and to extract information from the Intergovernmental Organizations Database (IGOs), version 3, provided by the Correlates of War Project (Pevehouse et al. 2020).

The dataset (V3) includes information of 534 IGO from 1816 to 2014, as well as membership information.

Source: Intergovernmental Organizations (v3).

Documentation and vignettes on https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/

Additionally, a distribution of the State System Membership (Correlates of War Project 2017) is included on this package.

Installation

Install igoR from CRAN:

You can install the developing version from GitHub:

library(remotes)
install_github("dieghernan/igoR")

Alternatively, you can install igoR using the r-universe:

# Enable this universe
options(repos = c(
  dieghernan = "https://dieghernan.r-universe.dev",
  CRAN = "https://cloud.r-project.org"
))


install.packages("igoR")

Basic usage

Search an IGO by name:

Search all IGOs related with sugar:

library(igoR)

result_sugar <- igo_search("Sugar")
ionum ioname orgname longorgname label sdate deaddate dead integrated replaced igocode version accuracyofpre1965membershipdates sourcesandnotes imputed political social economic
40 AMSC African/Malgasy Sugar Council African and Malagasy Sugar Council African and Malagasy Sugar Council 1966 1977 1 0 0 NA 2.1 Not applicable - created 1965 or later 0 0 0 1
1920 GLACSEC Group of L/A & Carib. Sugar Exp. Countries Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries 1974 2001 1 0 0 NA 2.3 Not applicable - created 1965 or later 0 1 0 0
3130 ISuC Intl Sugar Council International Sugar Council International Sugar Council 1937 1967 1 0 0 91 3.0 Within 5 years 0 0 1 0
4290 SugU Sugar Union Sugar Union Sugar Union 1902 1913 1 0 0 29 3.0 Completely accurate, except a few minor uncertainties 0 0 0 1

IGO members:

Composition of the European Economic Community over time:

eec_code <- igo_search("EEC", exact = TRUE)

# Founding
eec_init <- igo_members(eec_code$ioname, year = eec_code$sdate)
ioname ccode state statenme year value category orgname
EEC 211 belgium Belgium 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 220 france France 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 325 italy Italy 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 212 luxembourg Luxembourg 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 210 netherlands Netherlands 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 260 wgermany German Federal Republic 1958 1 Full Membership European Economic Community

EEC, members (1958)

# Latest date
eec_end <- igo_members(eec_code$ioname)
ioname ccode state statenme year value category orgname
EEC 211 belgium Belgium 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 390 denmark Denmark 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 220 france France 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 255 germany Germany 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 350 greece Greece 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 205 ireland Ireland 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 325 italy Italy 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 212 luxembourg Luxembourg 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 210 netherlands Netherlands 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 235 portugal Portugal 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 230 spain Spain 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community
EEC 200 uk United Kingdom 1992 1 Full Membership European Economic Community

EEC, members (1992)

  • countrycode for converting country names and codes across different systems (ISO3, Eurostat, World Bank, UN, FIPS/GEC, etc..)
  • dplyr for data manipulation.

Citation

To cite the ‘igoR’ package in publications use this entry:

Hernangómez D (2022). “igoR: Intergovernmental Organizations Database.” doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4442958 (URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4442958), <URL: https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users:

@Misc{,
  title = {igoR: Intergovernmental Organizations Database},
  author = {Diego Hernangómez},
  year = {2022},
  version = {0.1.3},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4442958},
  url = {https://dieghernan.github.io/igoR/},
  abstract = {Tools to extract information from the Intergovernmental Organizations ('IGO') Database , version 3, provided by the Correlates of War Project <https://correlatesofwar.org/>. See also Pevehouse, J. C. et al. (2020). Version 3 includes information from 1815 to 2014.},
}

References

Correlates of War Project. 2017. “State System Membership List, V2016.” https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/state-system-membership.
Pevehouse, Jon CW, Timothy Nordstrom, Roseanne W McManus, and Anne Spencer Jamison. 2020. “Tracking Organizations in the World: The Correlates of War IGO Version 3.0 Datasets.” Journal of Peace Research 57 (3): 492–503. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343319881175.