tradeIndices: International Trade Intensity, Openness and Diversification Measures

Calculates commonly used indicators for empirical international trade analysis from user-supplied data. Measures include trade openness, bilateral export and import intensity, the Herfindahl-Hirschman concentration index, normalized and entropy-based diversification, structural diversification relative to a benchmark, export similarity, trade complementarity, revealed comparative advantage, and intra-industry trade. Functions are vectorized where appropriate, validate economically meaningful inputs, and require no external data service. The definition of trade openness follows the World Bank indicator metadata <https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS>. Methodological background for several trade indicators is provided by the World Bank's World Integrated Trade Solution <https://wits.worldbank.org/wits/wits/witshelp/Content/Utilities/e1.trade_indicators.htm> and the World Trade Organization (2012, ISBN:9789287038128).

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.tradeIndices
Author: Chiranjit Mazumder [aut, cre], Renjini V. R. [aut]
Maintainer: Chiranjit Mazumder <majumder.chira at icar.org.in>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: tradeIndices citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: tradeIndices results

Documentation:

Reference manual: tradeIndices.html , tradeIndices.pdf
Vignettes: Trade Intensity, Openness and Diversification (source, R code)

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Package source: tradeIndices_0.1.0.tar.gz
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