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worldbank 0.9.0.9000
worldbank 0.9.0 (2026-05-03)
wb_bulk() downloads the entire World Development Indicators dataset as a zip and returns its six CSVs as a list of data frames, including footnote and series-time metadata not exposed by the API.wb_search() searches the indicator catalog for a regular expression pattern across one or more fields.- Documentation improvements.
worldbank 0.8.0 (2026-03-15)
wb_data() gains mrv and gapfill parameters to query the most recent values and forward-fill missing data.wb_project() queries World Bank project data with support for filtering by country, status, region, date range, and free-text search.pip_cp() returns country profile data from the PIP API.pip_data() gains a nowcast parameter to include nowcast estimates.wb_cache_clear() replaces wb_cache_delete(), which is now deprecated.
worldbank 0.7.1 (2025-12-06)
- Don't cache queries in tests to comply with CRAN
worldbank 0.7.0 (2025-11-10)
- Added optional request caching to improve performance for repeated queries. Enable with
options(worldbank.cache = TRUE). Cache duration can be customized with worldbank.cache_max_age (default: 1 day).
- New functions
wb_cache_delete() and wb_cache_dir() to manage the cache.
worldbank 0.6.1 (2025-08-29)
- Documentation improvements.
worldbank 0.6.0 (2025-05-29)
wb_data() has been added as an alias for wb_country_indicator()
worldbank 0.5.0 (2025-01-27)
wb_country_indicator() now allows for multiple indicators to be requested at once.
worldbank 0.4.0 (2024-12-09)
- Removed conditional return of tibble and now always return a data.frame instead. This ensures type stability across all functions.
- Add support for Finances One API data.
worldbank 0.3.0 (2024-08-26)
- Moved to HTTPS for all API calls.
- Support for Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) data.
worldbank 0.2.0 (2024-07-31)
- Support month and quarter date format in
wb_country_indicator().
- More robust error handling.
worldbank 0.1.0 (2024-07-02)