R Observatory: Metrics for wbstats version 1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wbstats

1.2Package record

Programmatic Access to Data and Statistics from the World Bank API

0packages dependsuggested by 2

37.2Kdownloads / year

44.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio Vargas SepulvedaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Search and download data from the World Bank Data API. Includes support for mutliple languages, access to annual, quarterly, and monthly data.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("wbstats", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("pachadotdev/wbstats")

Development version from pachadotdev/wbstats. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-wbstats

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-wbstats

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-wbstats

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2

READMEYes · 312 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.2Citation fileYes · software entry only

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 25%1 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

02 - Setup

How these are measured

Downloads

37.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,566 · ~102/day · ~3.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.2K30 days

6.1K90 days

37.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on161 r2u9 autocran149 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

pachadotdev/wbstats ↗Account: pachadotdevFork of gshs-ornl/wbstats

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

187Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 187 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14 · +20% stars, 30d · Discussions: 1 post

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 32026-09-21 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pachadotdev/wbstats on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors, Buy Me a Coffee

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-14

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wbstats adds 9 packages (7 with compiled code, 8.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (3)

data.table httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

litedown tinytest vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

COVID19 investdatar

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2025) · added in 1.1

Jesse Piburn

Author

The World Bank

Data contributor · added in 1.1

Previously maintained by Jesse Piburn (0.1 to 1.0.4).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

UT-Battelle, LLC

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.0.4

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.2Latest
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2026-08-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 1 export
wb_country_coverage
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-09-14
1.1
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2025-09-14 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
wb, wbcache, wbcountries, wbdatacatalog, wbincome, wbindicators, wblending, wbsearch, wbsources, wbtopics
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-08-25
repeated policy violation On Internet access
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-12-05
1.0.4
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2020-12-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
%>%
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-10-13
policy violations On Internet access, spamming members of the CRAN team
1.0.1
record
2020-07-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
wb_cache, wb_countries, wb_data, wb_income_levels, wb_indicators, wb_languages, wb_lending_types, wb_regions, wb_search, wb_sources, wb_topics
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2
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2018-01-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
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2016-12-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1
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2016-04-22
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-22
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI · relicensed from MIT + file LICENSE in 1.1
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 681 KB / 1 file
Download size: 784 KB

Appears in task views

Econometrics Official Statistics & Survey Statistics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("wbstats")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.11578/dc.20171025.1827.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wbstats version 1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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