download_wdi: Download WDI data and prepare the dataset for the plots

In edalfon/wdiquickplots: Quick Plots for WDI data and other World Bank-hosted databases

Description

Download data using a memoised version of WDI::WDI() and wrangle a bit with the data to prepare a data.frame for the plots#'

Usage

download_wdi(
  indicator = "NY.GDP.PCAP.KD",
  highlight_countries = c(""),
  start = lubridate::year(Sys.Date()) - 10,
  end = lubridate::year(Sys.Date() - months(18)),
  country = "all",
  regions = default_regions(),
  income_groups = default_income_groups(),
  interpolate = FALSE
)

Arguments

indicator	character of length 1 with the indicator code
highlight_countries	character vector with country names to highlight
start	first year to download data
end	last year to download data
country	subset of countries to download data from. Default to "all". This argument is passed as is to WDI::WDI and hence, requires 'ISO-2 character codes, e.g. "BR", "US", "CA"'.
regions	character vector to filter the data only to specific regions
income_groups	character vector to filter the data only to specific income groups
interpolate	boolean to indicate whether to interpolate missing values

Value

data.frame with columns country, year, ind_1, region, income, highlight_ind_1. highlight_ind_1 = NA, except for highlight countries in which case, it takes the value of ind_1

Examples

## Not run: 
download_wdi("NY.GDP.PCAP.KD", c("Colombia", "Germany"), 2019, 2019)

## End(Not run)

edalfon/wdiquickplots documentation built on Dec. 24, 2021, 3 p.m.