R Observatory: Metrics for wbwdi version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wbwdi

1.0.4

Seamless Access to World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)

3packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christoph ScheuchFirst published 2025-02-255 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Access and analyze the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI) using the corresponding API https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392-about-the-indicators-api-documentation. WDI provides more than 24,000 country or region-level indicators for various contexts. 'wbwdi' enables users to download, process and work with WDI series across multiple countries, aggregates, and time periods.

Install

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

install.packages("wbwdi", 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("tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi")

Development version from tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi. 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-wbwdi

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-wbwdi

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-wbwdi

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.21

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-09
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-27
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-03-26
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 597 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,761 · ~11/day · ~325/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22430 days

1.1K90 days

3.9K1 year

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Also on132 r2u22 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi

11Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

208Commits

2Contributors

reconomic-data

208 commits · Last activity 2026-04-10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cli dplyr httr2 jsonlite purrr tibble tidyr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

curl knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

econdataverse econtools ctmva

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.4Latest
2026-04-10 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.3
2025-11-20 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2025-10-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1
2025-03-25 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-02-25
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-25
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 465 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wbwdi")

Format

Scheuch, C. (2026). wbwdi: Seamless Access to World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wbwdi

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wbwdi version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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