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getWDImetaData

World Bank Indicator Metadata


Description

A function to extract the definition and the meta data from the World Bank API

Usage

getWDImetaData(
  indicator,
  printMetaData = FALSE,
  saveMetaData = FALSE,
  saveName = "worldBankMetaData"
)

Arguments

indicator

The World Bank official indicator name.

printMetaData

logical, print out the meta data information

saveMetaData

logical, whether meta data should be saved as a local csv file.

saveName

The name of the file for the meta data to save to.

Examples

## pop.df = getWDImetaData("SP.POP.TOTL",
##                         printMetaData = TRUE, saveMetaData = TRUE)

FAOSTAT

Download Data from the FAOSTAT Database

v2.2.1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Michael C. J. Kao <michael.kao@fao.org>, Markus Gesmann, Filippo Gheri
Initial release
2020-11-12

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