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wopr - wopr R package, version 1.0.0

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

10 June 2021

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (OPP1182408, OPP1182425, INV-002697).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Darin E, Tatem AJ. 2021. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 1.0.0. WorldPop, University of Southampton. doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00716

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure almost 4 years ago

wopr - wopr R package, version 0.4.0

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

17 November 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (OPP1182408, OPP1182425, INV-002697).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Darin E, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.4.0. WorldPop, University of Southampton. doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00688

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure over 4 years ago

wopr - wopr R package, version 0.3.4

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

29 July 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.3.4. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00679

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure almost 5 years ago

wopr - wopr R package, version 0.3.3

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

16 June 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.3.3. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00664

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure almost 5 years ago

wopr - wopr R package, version 0.3.2

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

28 May 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.3.2. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00664

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure almost 5 years ago

wopr - wopr R package, version 0.3.1

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

25 April 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.3.1. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00664

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure almost 5 years ago

wopr - wopr R package v0.2.0

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

20 March 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.
  5. Run the woprVision web application locally from the R console.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.2.0. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00664

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure about 5 years ago

wopr - wopr R package v0.1.0

Note: This is the initial pre-release of the wopr R package intended to give public access to early development versions of the package. We cannot gaurantee future pre-releases will be backwards compatible with this initial pre-release.

wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository

WorldPop Research Group
University of Southampton

23 February 2020

wopr is an R package that provides API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository. This gives users the ability to:

  1. Download WorldPop population data sets directly from the R console,
  2. Submit spatial queries (points or polygons) to the WorldPop server to retrieve population estimates within user-defined geographic areas,
  3. Get estimates of population sizes for specific demographic groups (i.e. age and sex), and
  4. Get probabilistic estimates of uncertainty for all population estimates.

Code for the wopr package is openly available on GitHub: https://github.com/wpgp/wopr

You are free to redistribute the code using a GNU General Public License v3.0 (GNU GPLv3) .

This work was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom Department for International Development as part of the GRID3 project (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development; OPP1182408).

Suggested citation:
Leasure DR, Bondarenko M, Tatem AJ. 2020. wopr: An R package to query the WorldPop Open Population Repository, version 0.1.0. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00663

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - HTML
Published by doug-leasure about 5 years ago