Download and combine Reinhart and Rogoff's (2010) crisis dummy variables into one data frame

Usage

RRCrisisGet(
  urls = c("http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/22_data.xls",
    "http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/35_data.xls",
    "http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/23_data.xls",
    "http://www.carmenreinhart.com/user_uploads/data/25_data.xls"),
  OutCountryID = "iso2c",
  message = TRUE,
  standardCountryName = TRUE
)

Source

Reinhart, Camen M. and Kenneth S. Rogoff, ''From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis,'' NBER Working Paper 15795, March 2010. Forthcoming in American Economic Review.

Arguments

urls: URLs for each Excel file in the Reinhart and Rogoff data set. See https://carmenreinhart.com/browse-by-topic/.
OutCountryID: character string. The type of country ID you would like to include in the output file along with the country name. See countrycode for available options.
message: logical. Whether or not to notify you which of sheets are being cleaned and organised.
standardCountryName: logical. Whether or not to standardise the country names variable based on country.name from countrycode.

Value

Returns a data frame with the following columns:

iso2c: The ISO two letter country code identifying the country. This can be changed to another country ID system using OutCountryID
country: Country names.
year: The year.
RR_Independence: Year of independence.
RR_CurrencyCrisis: Currency crisis.
RR_InflationCrisis: Inflation crisis.
RR_StockMarketCrash: Stock market crash.
RR_SovDebtCrisisDom: Domestic sovereign debt crisis.
RR_SovDebtCrisisExt: External sovereign debt crisis.
RR_BankingCrisis: Banking crisis.
RR_YearlyCrisisTally: Total number of crises per year.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 RRDummies <- RRCrisisGet()
 }