get_country_info_br: Get Country Information for Brazil

In BrazilDataAPI: Access Brazilian Data via APIs and Curated Datasets

Get Country Information for Brazil

Description

Retrieves comprehensive country information for Brazil from the REST Countries API. This function fetches data including official and common names, geographical information, capital, area, population, and languages.

Usage

get_country_info_br()

Details

This function makes a request to the REST Countries API v3.1 endpoint specifically for Brazil using full text search. It handles API errors gracefully and returns NULL if the request fails or no data is found.

Value

A tibble with one row containing Brazil's country information:

name_common

Common name of the country

name_official

Official name of the country

region

Geographic region

subregion

Geographic subregion

capital

Capital city(ies)

area

Total area in square kilometers

population

Total population

languages

Languages spoken (comma-separated)

Examples

# Get Brazil information
br_info <- get_country_info_br()
print(br_info)

BrazilDataAPI documentation built on Sept. 15, 2025, 9:09 a.m.