New R package to access World Bank data
Staying on top of new CRAN packages is quite a challenge nowadays. However, thanks to Dirk’s CRANberries service I occasionally spot a new gem, such as wbstats
, which appeared on CRAN last week.
Similarly to the WDI
package, wbstats
offers an interface to the World Bank database.
With the functions of wbstats
the World Bank data can be searched and data for several indicators requested. Unlike WDI
, the data is returned in a ‘long’ table with one column for all values and a separate column for the indicators. Additionally, the function wb
allows me to specify how many most recent values (mrv
) I am interested.
Session Info
R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan)
locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
[6] methods base
other attached packages:
[1] googleVis_0.5.10 data.table_1.9.6 wbstats_0.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.1.0 R6_2.1.2 rsconnect_0.4.2.1
[4] tools_3.2.4 curl_0.9.7 RJSONIO_1.3-0
[7] jsonlite_0.9.19 chron_2.3-47
Citation
For attribution, please cite this work as:Markus Gesmann (Apr 26, 2016) New R package to access World Bank data. Retrieved from https://magesblog.com/post/2016-04-26-new-r-package-to-access-world-bank-data/
@misc{ 2016-new-r-package-to-access-world-bank-data,
author = { Markus Gesmann },
title = { New R package to access World Bank data },
url = { https://magesblog.com/post/2016-04-26-new-r-package-to-access-world-bank-data/ },
year = { 2016 }
updated = { Apr 26, 2016 }
}