Search indicator information available through the World Bank API

This function allows finds indicators that match a search term and returns a data frame of matching results

wb_search(
  pattern,
  fields = c("indicator_id", "indicator", "indicator_desc"),
  extra = FALSE,
  cache,
  ignore.case = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

pattern	Character string or regular expression to be matched
fields	Character vector of column names through which to search
extra	if FALSE, only the indicator ID and short name are returned, if TRUE, all columns of the cache parameter's indicators data frame are returned. Default is FALSE
cache	List of data frames returned from wb_cache(). If omitted, wb_cachelist is used
ignore.case	if FALSE, the pattern matching is case sensitive and if TRUE, case is ignored during matching. Default is TRUE
...	Any additional grep() agruments you which to pass

Value

a tibble with indicators that match the search pattern.

Examples

d <- wb_search(pattern = "education")

d <- wb_search(pattern = "Food and Agriculture Organization", fields = "source_org")

# with regular expression operators
# 'poverty' OR 'unemployment' OR 'employment'
d <- wb_search(pattern = "poverty|unemployment|employment")

# pass any other grep argument along as well
# everything without 'education'
d <- wb_search(pattern = "education", invert = TRUE)

# contains "gdp" AND "trade"
d <- wb_search("^(?=.*gdp)(?=.*trade).*", perl = TRUE)

# contains "gdp" and NOT "trade"
d <- wb_search("^(?=.*gdp)(?!.*trade).*", perl = TRUE)