Recent Releases of wbstats

Changes

update to how wb_cache() requests are made to help reduce errors due to timeout
updated to how wb_data() requests are made when using country = 'countries_only' (default) to help reduce errors due to timeout and speed up requests.
changed deprecation status of old functions from lifecycle::deprecate_warn() to lifecycle::deprecate_soft()

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Published by jpiburn over 5 years ago

The 1.0.0 release represents a complete overhaul of the wbstats package to hopefully be more consistent and easy to use.

Data now returns in a wide format by default with each indicator being its own column
Adoption of the "tidyverse" ecosystem.
New naming convention, wb_*() for all wbstats functions. Relatedly,
Older functions from previous versions are now deprecated and should produce a warning
Support for custom indicator names by passing a named vector to wb_data()
Includes support for most recent non-empty value queries. Basically quering the most recent n values from each location, regardless of the date.
wb_search() now accepts any grep() argument passed through ...

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Published by jpiburn almost 6 years ago