An R interface to the US Census Bureau International Data Base API
This R package enables users to fetch international demographic indicators from the US Census Bureau's International Data Base API and return R data frames.
I'm still working out a few things with the package before sending to CRAN; however if you'd like to try it out install with:
library(devtools)
install_github('walkerke/idbr')`
For some examples of how to use the package, I encourage you to check out a couple blog posts: