wdi2: Download World Development Indicators from the World Bank Indicators API

A modern, flexible interface for accessing the World Bank’s World Development Indicators (WDI) API <https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889392-about-the-indicators-api-documentation>. Similar to the existing 'WDI' package, 'wdi2' allows users to download, process, and analyze indicator data for multiple countries and years. However, 'wdi2' differs by relying on 'httr2' for multi-page request and error handling, providing support for downloading multiple indicators with a single function call, using progress bars to keep users informed about the data processing, and returning the processed data in a tidy data format in line with Wickham (2014) <doi:10.18637/jss.v059.i10>.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1)
Imports:	cli, dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), purrr (≥ 1.0.0), tibble, tidyr (≥ 1.0.0)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.2.0)
Published:	2024-09-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.wdi2
Author:	Christoph Scheuch [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Christoph Scheuch <christoph.scheuch at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/tidy-intelligence/r-wdi2/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/tidy-intelligence/r-wdi2
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README NEWS
CRAN checks:	wdi2 results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	wdi2.pdf
Vignettes:	Using 'wdi2' to access World Development Indicators (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	wdi2_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: wdi2_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: wdi2_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): wdi2_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): wdi2_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): wdi2_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): wdi2_0.1.0.tgz

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