wbwdi

1.0.4

Seamless Access to World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI)

3packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–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")

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

pak::pak("tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi")

Development version from tidy-intelligence/r-wbwdi. Requires the pak package.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-wbwdi

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

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

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-wbwdi

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

sudo zypper install R-wbwdi

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.21

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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
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

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,915 · ~10/day · ~306/mo

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Source & community

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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

Reverse dependencies

3direct

–indirect (not tracked)

econdataverse econtools ctmva

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 2,446 (76%)Rd 644 (20%)Vignettes 143 (4%)

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

25 10 exported

Complexity

3 avg / 10 max

Call network

25 nodes / 25 edges

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Christoph Scheuch

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Release 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
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet