worldbank {rpanel} | R Documentation

## Data on CO2 emissions, GDP, life.expectancy and population for the countries of the world between 1960 and 2007

### Description

Loading this file makes the dataframes `co2.emissions`, `gdp`, `life.expectancy` and `population` available. These contain the CO2 emissions, gross domenstic product, life expectancy and population data for each country of the world (rows indexed by rownames) for the years 1960-2007.

These data are provided by the World Bank through the database at `http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators` The data are also used use in the Google Public Data Explorer `http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory` and by the Gapminder project `http://www.gapminder.org` )

The data are used in the rp.bubbleplot example script.

### References

rpanel: Simple interactive controls for R functions using the tcltk package. Journal of Statistical Software, 17, issue 9.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
       rp.bubbleplot(log(gdp), log(co2.emissions), 1960:2007, size = population,
          col = life.expectancy,
          interpolate = TRUE, hscale = 1.5, vscale = 1.5)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package rpanel version 1.1-4 Index]