In britishredcrosssociety/asylum: Data on Asylum and Resettlement for the UK

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)

asylum

The asylum package provides easy access to asylum and resettlement datasets for the UK, published by the Home Office.

The current release uses the most recent data from September 2023.

Installation

Install the released version of asylum from CRAN:

install.packages("asylum")

Alternatively, you can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("humaniverse/asylum")

Example

To calculate the number of applications from Afghanistan awaiting a decision, as of the latest quarter:

library(asylum)
library(dplyr)

asylum::awaiting_decision |> 
  filter(Nationality == "Afghanistan" & Date == max(Date)) |> 
  summarise(`Total applications awaiting a decision` = sum(Applications))

Getting help

If you encounter a clear bug, please file an issue with a minimal reproducible example on GitHub.

---

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

britishredcrosssociety/asylum documentation built on Feb. 28, 2025, 12:12 a.m.