get_source_data_wbstats: Get World Bank Data via wbstats

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Get World Bank Data via wbstats

Description

Downloads indicator data using the wbstats package and standardizes it to a package-native long schema.

Usage

get_source_data_wbstats(
  indicator,
  country = "countries_only",
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL,
  mrv = NULL,
  mrnev = NULL,
  cache = NULL,
  freq = "Y",
  gapfill = FALSE,
  date_as_class_date = FALSE,
  lang = NULL
)

Arguments

indicator	World Bank indicator code.
country	Country or aggregate code.
start_date	Optional start date.
end_date	Optional end date.
mrv	Optional number of most recent values.
mrnev	Optional number of most recent non-empty values.
cache	Optional cache object passed to wbstats::wb_data().
freq	Frequency code: "Y", "Q", or "M".
gapfill	Logical passed to wbstats::wb_data().
date_as_class_date	Logical passed to wbstats::wb_data().
lang	Optional language code.

Value

Standardized data.table.

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