ritwals is an R package that provides an intuitive interface to the World Atlas of Language Structures. The WALS data is (re)distributed with the package (i.e. web access is not required to use it).

Installation

install.packages("devtools") # if you do not have devtools
devtools::install_github("hkauhanen/ritwals")

Documentation

See function reference (vignettes are in preparation).

Reference

Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://wals.info