prisonbrief
The facts below are what the maker publishes about prisonbrief, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From prisonbrief's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| prisonbrief | Free | MIT licensed R package · no paid plans listed |
The facts
Each one read from prisonbrief's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authors
- The package was written by Danilo Freire and Robert Myles McDonnell.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Country list
- The wpb_list() function prints the available countries to the console.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data coverage
- The World Prison Brief data are described as covering 223 jurisdictions and coming from public sources.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data limitation
- Country-level table data may need further cleaning before quantitative analysis, while regional data are prepared for automated analysis.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Data source
- The World Prison Brief is described as an online database compiled by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- Install
- The stable package is available on CRAN via install.packages("prisonbrief"), with development installation documented through GitHub.checked 5 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Prison tables
- wpb_table() returns prison system variables for the world, a region, or a country.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- prisonbrief downloads, cleans, and returns data from the World Prison Brief for statistical analysis.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Regions
- Documented region choices include Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America, and All.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The package depends on R and uses spatial-data packages to return simple features dataframes; Linux installation may require libudunits2-dev.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Scripting support
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The project welcomes feedback and suggestions through GitHub issues.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Time series
- wpb_series() downloads and tidies prison population total and rate trends for jurisdictions in the project.checked 5 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Mapping
- wpb_table() provides geometric shapes for maps.checked 5 Oct 2026
