wbstats

1.1

Programmatic Access to Data and Statistics from the World Bank API

1packages depend

46.4Kdownloads / year

50.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio Vargas SepulvedaFirst published 2016-04-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Search and download data from the World Bank Data API.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("wbstats", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("pachadotdev/wbstats")

Development version from pachadotdev/wbstats. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-wbstats

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-wbstats

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-wbstats

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 96.03

50.5%

Coverage · measured lines

92%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 81 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

46.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,589 · ~127/day · ~3.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.1K30 days

8.4K90 days

46.4K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pachadotdev/wbstats

3Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

159Commits

5Contributors

License Apache-2.0 · 159 commits · Last activity 2025-09-14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pachadotdev/wbstats on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2

Imports (11)

dplyr httr jsonlite lubridate readr rlang stringr tibble tidyr magrittr tidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

ggplot2 knitr markdown rmarkdown testthat vcr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

COVID19

Code & Tests

Code Composition

YAML 101,070 (98%)R 1,200 (1%)Rd 427 (0%)Vignettes 345 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.5 median / 30 max
Test cases: 12 / 96.03 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

51%

Expression

53.2%

Tests / Examples

50.5% / 0% ex

Functions

28 11 exported

Complexity

3.6 avg / 30 max

Call network

28 nodes / 52 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

28 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
wb_cache exp	1	0%
wb_countries exp	1	0%
wb_income_levels exp	1	0%
wb_indicators exp	2	0%
wb_languages exp	1	0%
wb_lending_types exp	1	0%

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1

Authors (2)

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.1

Jesse Piburn

Author

Other (1)

The World Bank

Data contributor · added in 1.1

Listed in earlier versions (1)

UT-Battelle, LLC

no longer listed · 0.1 to 1.0.4

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1Latest
2025-09-14 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2025-09-14
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-08-25
repeated policy violation On Internet access
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.4
2020-12-05 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-12-05
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-10-13
policy violations On Internet access, spamming members of the CRAN team
1.0.1
2020-07-26 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.2
2018-01-03 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.1
2016-12-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1
2016-04-22
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-22
Total releases: 6 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2
Bundled data: 378 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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