search.indicators: Search available data indicators

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

Description

This function will search available data indicators (ID and name) using user provided text.

Usage

search.indicators(sText, simple = FALSE)

Arguments

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

Value

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

id	ID of the data indicator
name	name of the data indicator

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

source	source of the data indicator
sourceNote	source note of the data indicator
sourceOrganization	source organization of the data indicator
topics	topics of the data indicator

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

Author(s)

Ming-Jer Lee <[e-mail]>

Examples

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

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