Converts any currency value into a specified USD-equivalent (set year; in this example, it is 2023 US$). Also includes code to correct for purchase power parity (conversion to international dollars). Use the currencyConvert.R script attached.
- Guillaume Latombe, University of Edinburgh
- Christophe Diagne, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- Elena Angulo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- Corey Bradshaw, Flinders University
- Franck Courchamp, Université Paris-Saclay
- Pierre Courtois, Centre for Environmental Economics
- Ross Cuthbert, Queen's University Belfast
- Melina Kourantidou, University of Southern Denmark
- Paulina Pontifes, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- David Renault, Université de Rennes
- David Roiz, Institut de recherche pour le développement
- Louis Simon, Queen's University Belfast
- Anna Turbelin, Natural Resources Canada
Accompanies paper:
Latombe G, Diagne C, et al. 2026. InvaHealth — a database of global human health costs from biological invasions. Scientific Data in preparation
currencyConvert.R: main R code for analysis
- PPP1990_2023.csv: purchasing power parity conversion values (source: World Bank)
countrycode, dplyr, fredr, quantmod, tidyverse, yahoofinancer
