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# populi: Utilities and Tools in R to Extract, Process, and Structure Population Datasets from the World Population Prospects of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

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The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat prepares regular revisions of the World Population Prospects - the official United Nations population estimates and projections. This package provides utilities and tools to extract, process, and structure these population datasets for use in R.

## Installation

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You can install the released version of populi from [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org) with:

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install.packages("populi")
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You can install the development version of `populi` from [GitHub](https://github.com/populi) with:

```{r install, echo = TRUE, eval = FALSE}
if(!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rapidsurveys/populi")
```