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 ORCID iD [aut, cre], Jesse Piburn ORCID iD [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_1.1.zip, r-release: wbstats_1.1.zip, r-oldrel: wbstats_1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): wbstats_1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): wbstats_1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): wbstats_1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): wbstats_1.1.tgz
Old sources: wbstats archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: COVID19, investdatar

Linking:

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