wbcache {wbstats}

Download an updated list of country, indicator, and source information

Description

Download an updated list of information regarding countries, indicators, sources, data catalog, indicator topics, lending types, and income levels from the World Bank API

Usage

wbcache(lang = c("en", "es", "fr", "ar", "zh"))

Arguments

lang

Language in which to return the results. If lang is unspecified, english is the default.

Value

A list containing the following items:

• countries: A data frame. The result of calling wbcountries

• indicators: A data frame.The result of calling wbindicators

• sources: A data frame.The result of calling wbsources

• datacatalog: A data frame.The result of calling wbdatacatalog

• topics: A data frame.The result of calling wbtopics

• income: A data frame.The result of calling wbincome

• lending: A data frame.The result of calling wblending

Note

Not all data returns have support for langauges other than english. If the specific return does not support your requested language by default it will return NA. For an enumeration of supported languages by data source please see wbdatacatalog. The options for lang are:

• en: English

• es: Spanish

• fr: French

• ar: Arabic

• zh: Mandarin

List item datacatalog will always return in english, as the API does not support any other langauges for that information.

Saving this return and using it has the cache parameter in wb and wbsearch replaces the default cached version wb_cachelist that comes with the package itself