wbstats: Programmatic Access to Data and Statistics from the World Bank API
Search and download data from the World Bank Data API. Includes support for mutliple languages, access to annual, quarterly, and monthly data.
| Version: | 1.2 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| Imports: | data.table, httr, jsonlite |
| Suggests: | litedown, tinytest, vcr |
| Published: | 2026-08-28 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.wbstats |
| Author: | Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda
 [aut, cre],
Jesse Piburn
[aut],
The World Bank [dtc] |
| Maintainer: | Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda <m.vargas.sepulveda at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/pachadotdev/wbstats/issues |
| License: | Apache License 2.0 |
| URL: | https://github.com/pachadotdev/wbstats |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | wbstats citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| In views: | Econometrics, OfficialStatistics |
| CRAN checks: | wbstats results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | wbstats.html , wbstats.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
02 - Setup (source) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | wbstats_1.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: wbstats_1.2.zip, r-release: wbstats_1.2.zip, r-oldrel: wbstats_1.2.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): wbstats_1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): wbstats_1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): wbstats_1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): wbstats_1.2.tgz |
| Old sources: | wbstats archive |
Reverse dependencies:
| Reverse suggests: | COVID19, investdatar |
Linking:
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