search.catalogs: Search available data catalogs

In mingjerli/rWBData: Access World Bank's Open Data in R

Description

This function will search available data catalog (name and acronym) using user provided text.

Usage

search.catalogs(sText, simple = FALSE)

Arguments

sText	a character represents text to search
simple	TRUE/FALSE; TRUE for full description of data catalog, FALSE for simplified description of data catalog

Value

This function always returns a data frame the following three columns.

ID	ID of the data catalog
name	name of the data catalog
acronym	acronym of the data catalog

If simple=FALSE, the returned data will include the following extra 23 columns

dexcription	description of the data catalog
url	url of the data catalog
type	type of the data catalog
languagesupported	available language of the data catalog
periodicity	data periodicity of the data catalog
economycoverage	which economy the data catalog covers
granularity	granularity of the data catalog
numberofeconomies	number of economics the data catalog covers
topics	topics of the data catalog
updatefrequency	update frequency of the data catalog
updateschedule	update schedule of the data catalog
lastrevisiondate	last update of the data catalog
contactdetails	contact information of the data catalog
accessoption	options to access the data catalog
bulkdownload	bulk download is available or not for the data catalog
cite	citation of the data catalog
detailpageurl	detail page url of the data catalog
coverage	coverage of the data catalog
api	api available of the data catalog
apiaccessurl	api access url of the data catalog
apisourceid	api source id of the data catalog
mobileapp	mobile app available of the data catalog
datanotes	note of the data catalog
listofcountriesregionssubnationaladmins	list of countries, regions, subnation, admins
sourceurl	source url of the data catalog

If there is no result matches, it will returns a data frame with zero row.

Author(s)

Ming-Jer Lee <[e-mail]>

See Also

available.catalogs

Examples

search.catalogs("GDP")[1:3,]
search.catalogs("GDP", simple=TRUE)[1:5,]

mingjerli/rWBData documentation built on May 22, 2019, 11:54 p.m.