prisonbrief

Spec sheet

Purpose

prisonbrief downloads, cleans, and returns data from the World Prison Brief for statistical analysis.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Deployment

desktopRead 23 Sep 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Support

The project welcomes feedback and suggestions through GitHub issues.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

License

The software is distributed under the MIT License, which grants permission to use, copy, modify, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies subject to its conditions.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Authors

The package was written by Danilo Freire and Robert Myles McDonnell.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Country list

The wpb_list() function prints the available countries to the console.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Data coverage

The World Prison Brief data are described as covering 223 jurisdictions and coming from public sources.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Data limitation

Country-level table data may need further cleaning before quantitative analysis, while regional data are prepared for automated analysis.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Data source

The World Prison Brief is described as an online database compiled by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Install

The stable package is available on CRAN via install.packages("prisonbrief"), with development installation documented through GitHub.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Mapping

wpb_table() provides geometric shapes for maps.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Prison tables

wpb_table() returns prison system variables for the world, a region, or a country.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Regions

Documented region choices include Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America, and All.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Requirements

The package depends on R and uses spatial-data packages to return simple features dataframes; Linux installation may require libudunits2-dev.Read 5 Oct 2026 · github.com

Scripting support

YesRead 23 Sep 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

Time series

wpb_series() downloads and tidies prison population total and rate trends for jurisdictions in the project.Read 5 Oct 2026 · danilofreire.github.io

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Where Specifiction places it

• Statistical Analysis Software#76 of 1067.4