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In vincentarelbundock/WDI: World Development Indicators and Other World Bank Data

WDIsearch

Search names and descriptions of available WDI series

Description

Data frame with series code, name, description, and source for the WDI series which match the given criteria

Usage

WDIsearch(string = "gdp", field = "name", short = TRUE, cache = NULL)

Arguments

string Character string. Search for this string using grep with ignore.case=TRUE. field Character string. Search this field. Admissible fields: ‘indicator’, ‘name’, ‘description’, ‘sourceDatabase’, ‘sourceOrganization’ short TRUE: Returns only the indicator’s code and name. FALSE: Returns the indicator’s code, name, description, and source. cache Data list generated by the WDIcache function. If omitted, WDIsearch will search a local list of series.

Value

Data frame with code, name, source, and description of all series which match the criteria.

Examples

library(WDI)

WDIsearch(string='gdp', field='name', cache=NULL)
WDIsearch(string='AG.AGR.TRAC.NO', field='indicator', cache=NULL)

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