lapop: Processing, Visualizing, and Labeling Americas Barometer Data

Labeling, weighting, and plotting data following custom style guidelines for use in reports, presentations, and social media posts. The Center for Global Democracy (formerly the Latin American Public Opinion Project) at Vanderbilt University is a leader in public survey research, best known for the Americas Barometer project. The publicly available data can be downloaded from: <https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/data-access.php>.

Version: 2.1.5
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: ggplot2, ggtext, ggrepel, showtext, grid, gridtext, gridExtra, sf, sysfonts, systemfonts, svglite, dplyr, srvyr, survey, haven, stats, purrr, tibble, marginaleffects, stringr, zoo
Suggests: readstata13, rio, rprojroot, knitr, rmarkdown, tidyr, ggpattern, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-04-29
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lapop (may not be active yet)
Author: Robert Vidigal ORCID iD [cre, aut], Luke Plutowski ORCID iD [ctb, aut]
Maintainer: Robert Vidigal <robert.vidigal at vanderbilt.edu>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://lapop-central.github.io/lapop/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: lapop results

Documentation:

Reference manual: lapop.html , lapop.pdf
Vignettes: AmericasBarometer Labels Guide (source, R code)
LAPOP Visualization Guide (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: lapop_2.1.5.tar.gz
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macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): lapop_2.1.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): lapop_2.1.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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