Download the entire World Development Indicators dataset as a single zip and return its
contents as a list of data frames. Useful for full-dataset analyses where paginating
through wb_data() would be slow, and for accessing footnote and series-time metadata
that the API does not expose.
Value
A named list of data.frame()s:
data: indicator values in long format with columnscountry_name,country_code,indicator_name,indicator_code,year,value.country: country metadata.series: series (indicator) metadata.country_series: country-series-specific notes.series_time: series-year-specific notes.footnote: footnotes per country, series, and year.
See also
Other indicators data:
wb_country(),
wb_data(),
wb_income_level(),
wb_indicator(),
wb_language(),
wb_lending_type(),
wb_region(),
wb_search(),
wb_source(),
wb_topic()
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
wdi <- wb_bulk()
head(wdi$data)
} # }