This R data package -- as of November 25, 2015 -- provides the data for the 100 Tallest Completed Buildings in the World as listed by The Skyscraper Center.

This tbl_df includes 9 variables:

You can install skyscraper from GitHib:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("csiu/skyscraper")

library(skyscraper)
library(ggplot2)


ggplot(skyscraper, 
       aes(
         x = reorder(city, height_m, function(x){-max(x)}), 
         y = height_m
       )) +
  geom_point() + 
  xlab("") + 
  ylab("Height (m)") +
  theme(
    axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 0.5)
  )

I make available the plain text, comma delimited .csv file of the skyscraper data:

• skyscraper.csv: the same dataset available via library(skyscraper); skyscraper
• If this package is installed on your system, you can find this file via: system.file("skyscraper.tsv", package="skyscraper")

This data is from:

Skyscrapercenter.com,. (2015). 100 Tallest Completed Buildings in the World - The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved 25 November 2015, from http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings