R Observatory: Metrics for wbwdi version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wbwdi

1.0.4Package record

Seamless Access to World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)

2packages dependsuggested by 1

4.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christoph ScheuchCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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.

Changes in 1.0.4

Minor improvements and bug fixes

Fix edge cases where tests didn't fail gracefully because of API errors.

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 2.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-16
ERROR12 OK, 2 ERROR2026-04-09
OK14 OK2026-03-27

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-26
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

READMEYes · 597 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 12 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 70%7 run in a plain check (7 of them under a condition) · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

`wbwdi` Data Model HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,379 · ~12/day · ~358/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35730 days

1K90 days

4.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on107 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

econdataverse/r-wbwdi ↗Organization: econdataverse

Moved from tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi.

12Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

208Commits

2Commit identities

reconomic-data

208 commits · Last activity 2026-04-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.4 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 112026-09-21 · 12

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-09
Commits: 4 by its own account · at least 4 crediting it in the message

From outside contributors

Claude Code
Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-04-09

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wbwdi adds 26 packages (17 with compiled code, 21 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

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

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

econdataverse econtools

Suggests, most downloaded first

ctmva

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Releases (5)

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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

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 package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 wbwdi version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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