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wdiexplorer

Explore World Development Indicators Data

v0.1.2 · Apr 21, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE
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Description

Provides a workflow for exploring World Development Indicators (WDI) country-level panel data. It downloads WDI data using the 'WDI' package and computes diagnostic indices that capture the temporal behaviour of the data by incorporating the grouping structure of the data. The set of diagnostic indices implemented includes variation features, trend and shape features, and sequential temporal features. This method is described in Akinfenwa, Cahill, and Hurley (2025) "'wdiexplorer': An R package Designed for Exploratory Analysis of World Development Indicators (WDI) Data" <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2511.07027>. We adapt the clustering diagnostics and visualisation methodology described in Rousseeuw (1987) <doi:10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7> and selected time series features from Hyndman and Athanasopoulos (2021) "Forecasting: Principles and Practice" <https://otexts.com/fpp3/>.

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Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'pisa_analysis.Rmd' using rmarkdown

Quitting from pisa_analysis.Rmd:45-47 [get-data]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `WDI::WDI()`:
! The following indicators could not be downloaded: LO.PISA.MAT.

Please make sure that you are running the latest version of the `WDI` package, and that the arguments you are using in the `WDI()` function are valid.

Sometimes, downloads will suddenly stop working, even if nothing has changed in the R code of the WDI package. ("The same WDI package version worked yesterday!") In those cases, the problem is almost certainly related to the World Bank servers or to your internet connection.

You can check if the World Bank web API is currently serving the indicator(s) of interest by typing a URL of this form in your web browser:

https://api.worldbank.org/v2/en/country/all/indicator/LO.PISA.MAT?format=json&date=:&per_page=32500&pag
...[truncated]...
he following indicators could not be downloaded: LO.PISA.MAT.

Please make sure that you are running the latest version of the `WDI` package, and that the arguments you are using in the `WDI()` function are valid.

Sometimes, downloads will suddenly stop working, even if nothing has changed in the R code of the WDI package. ("The same WDI package version worked yesterday!") In those cases, the problem is almost certainly related to the World Bank servers or to your internet connection.

You can check if the World Bank web API is currently serving the indicator(s) of interest by typing a URL of this form in your web browser:

https://api.worldbank.org/v2/en/country/all/indicator/LO.PISA.MAT?format=json&date=:&per_page=32500&page=1
--- failed re-building 'pisa_analysis.Rmd'

--- re-building 'pm_analysis.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'pm_analysis.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'pisa_analysis.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 4, 2026
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'pisa_analysis.Rmd' using rmarkdown

Quitting from pisa_analysis.Rmd:45-47 [get-data]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `WD
...[truncated]...
 re-building 'pisa_analysis.Rmd'

--- re-building 'pm_analysis.Rmd' using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building 'pm_analysis.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'pisa_analysis.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 27, 2026
ERROR 10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 26, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘pisa_analysis.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘pisa_analysis.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘pm_analysis.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from pm_analysis.Rmd:51-53 [get-data]
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...[truncated]...
/v2/en/country/all/indicator/EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3?format=json&date=:&per_page=32500&page=1
--- failed re-building ‘pm_analysis.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘pm_analysis.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE 8 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 24, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb
ERROR 7 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 23, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘pisa_analysis.Rmd’ using rmarkdown

Quitting from pisa_analysis.Rmd:45-47 [get-data]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error 
...[truncated]...
 re-building ‘pisa_analysis.Rmd’

--- re-building ‘pm_analysis.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘pm_analysis.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘pisa_analysis.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb
NOTE 6 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  7.0Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    5.2Mb
    help   1.6Mb

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies dplyr tidyr tidyselect tibble tsibble rlang WDI cluster fabletools feasts forcats ggplot2 ggiraph ggtext ggdist +3 more dependencies wdiexplorer

Version History

new 0.1.2 Apr 21, 2026