The goal of cepiigeodist is to provide the same data from GeoDist ready to be used in R (i.e. with the gravity package).
The package provides data on countries and distance measures alongside dummy variables indicating whether two countries are contiguous, share a common language or a colonial relationship, and others.
cepiigeodist can be installed by running
# install.packages("remotes")
install_github("pachadotdev/cepiigeodist")
The main source to obtain the data in this package is:
Mayer, T. & Zignago, S. (2011). Notes on CEPII's distances measures: the GeoDist Database. CEPII Working Paper 2011-25