Global Disaster Losses from the EMDAT database Using R
The EMDAT database provides valuable information on human
and financial losses from natural disasters around the world. Some
of the issues with the EMDAT data are lack of entire data
accessibility, static and inconsistent summary reports, and the
lack of auxiliary financial and demographic data. The emdatr
package addresses some of these issues. Data from EMDAT was downloaded
via the web (http://www.emdat.be/database) and cleaned and
enhanced. emdatr provides a sample of this cleaned and
enhanced data. Also, emdatr provides functionality to access
the entire cleaned and enhanced EMDAT data. The examples provided in
the vignette demonstrate the functionality provided by emdatr.
The goal of emdatr is to promote the use of EMDAT data, bring
transparency to the data, shed light on the limitations of the data,
and make the analysis of the data easier through the R language and
the plethora of open source packages built around it.

Global Disaster Losses from the EMDAT Database Using R
The 'EMDAT' database provides information on human
and financial losses from more than 21,000 major natural global
disasters from 1900 to the present. This package provides the
entire data available from 'EMDAT' and also additional relevant
information such as historical national GDP and population.
Moreover, this package also provides functionality to extract
desired subsets of the 'EMDAT' data. The examples provided in
the vignette demonstrate the functionality provided by 'emdatr'.
The goal of 'emdatr' is to promote the use of 'EMDAT' data, bring
transparency to the data, shed light on the limitations of
the data, and make the analysis of the data easier using R.

ecological models and data (book support)
Data sets and auxiliary functions for \emph{Ecological Models and Data}

Ecological models and data (book support)
Auxiliary functions and data sets for _Ecological Models and Data_, a book presenting maximum likelihood estimation and related topics for ecologists (in preparation for Princeton University Press)