News

2.7.9

  • The bulk download URL has changed. The package now uses the new URL. Thanks to @mjantti for issue #66.
  • Fix a bug where ISO3 codes were wrongly attributed to column iso2c (#54).
  • wdi.dl() and wdi.query() are not exported anymore. Those were undocumented anyway (#65).
  • Update the series search cache.

2.7.8

  • Move to jsonlite
  • end is NULL by default

2.7.7

  • Update the cache

2.7.6

  • WDI(extra = TRUE) includes a new lastupdated column.

2.7.5

  • Add the observation status (whether an observation is a forecast) when extra = TRUE in WDI() (#48)
  • Updated cache

2.7.4

  • Bug fix for on-the-fly rename

2.7.3

  • Better error message
  • Bug fixes

2.7.2

  • Add support for several languages with the “language” argument in WDI() (#15)
  • Add “latest” argument in WDI(), to fetch the most recent non-NA values (#29, #43)
  • Speed improvement in WDIbulk (Thanks to @etiennebacher)
  • WDIbulk gets a timeout argument

2.7.1

  • Bug: did not download all countries
  • WDIcache did not retrieve regions

2.7.0

  • API v2
  • Fix a breaking change after API v2
  • per_page not large enough when dataset is big
  • Monthly and quarterly data

2.6.0

  • start and end are NULL as default and download all available years.
  • label attribute to the return data.frame includes descriptive labels for each
  • WDIbulk function to download all of WDI
  • WDIcache and data trim whitespace from region names

2.5.1

  • New # WDI numbering scheme
  • Updated country and indicator data

2.5.0

  • Namespace issues (thanks to Jan Dietrich)
  • Updated the list of available indicators
  • Allow iso3c or iso2c as input for country argument
  • Rolled-back indicator input clean up because too aggressive (Thanks to Geoff Wright)
  • Rename columns automatically when using a named vector

2.4.0

  • Call RJSONIO::fromJSON explicitly to avoid conflict with JSON package (Thanks to Richard Cotton)

2.3.0

  • Change default start/end date per user request

2.2.0

  • Bug: country names were stripped of digits

2.1.0

  • Fixed various issues (thanks to Matthieu Stigler for bug reports and patches)
  • Faster downloads when requesting multiple countries (leveraging the US;BR;CA API syntax)

2.0.0

  • Now uses JSON instead of XML (Faster, easier)
  • WDIcache function now allows users to update the locally stored database of available WDI series
  • Fixed doc examples
  • Documentation now uses roxygen2
  • Moved development to github
  • Series and country info now in a single data list. utf-8 encoding fixed