giscoR: Download 'Eurostat' 'GISCO' Spatial Data

Tools to download global and European spatial data from the 'Eurostat' 'GISCO' (Geographic Information System of the Commission) data distribution <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco>. The package provides helpers for country boundaries, 'NUTS' regions, administrative units, statistical units, transport networks, basic service locations and other 'GISCO' datasets. This package is not officially related to or endorsed by 'Eurostat'.

Version: 1.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: cli, countrycode (≥ 1.2.0), httr2 (≥ 1.2.0), jsonlite, lifecycle, rappdirs (≥ 0.3.0), sf (≥ 1.0.0), tibble, tools, utils
Suggests: dplyr, eurostat, ggplot2 (≥ 3.5.0), knitr, quarto, stats, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-06-17
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.giscoR
Author: Diego Hernangómez ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Eurostat ROR ID [cph], EuroGeographics [cph]
Maintainer: Diego Hernangómez <diego.hernangomezherrero at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/rOpenGov/giscoR/issues
License: GPL-3
Copyright: The general copyright notice and license policy from Eurostat applies (see file COPYRIGHTS). Some datasets have additional download and usage provisions. See <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata>.
giscoR copyright details
URL: https://ropengov.github.io/giscoR/, https://github.com/rOpenGov/giscoR
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: giscoR citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: Spatial
CRAN checks: giscoR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: giscoR.html , giscoR.pdf
Vignettes: Get started with giscoR (source)

Downloads:

Package source: giscoR_1.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: giscoR_1.1.0.zip, r-release: giscoR_1.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: giscoR_1.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): giscoR_1.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): giscoR_1.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): giscoR_1.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): giscoR_1.1.1.tgz
Old sources: giscoR archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: geonuts, intSDM, mapSpain, qPRAentry
Reverse suggests: clustTMB, eurostat, MRG, potential

Linking:

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