NEWS

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WDI 2.7.9 (2025-03-22)

• The bulk download URL has changed. The package now uses the new URL. Thanks to @mjantti for issue #66.
• Fix a bug where ISO3 codes were wrongly attributed to column iso2c (#54).
• wdi.dl() and wdi.query() are not exported anymore. Those were undocumented anyway (#65).
• Update the series search cache.

WDI 2.7.8 (2022-09-25)

• Move to jsonlite
• end is NULL by default

WDI 2.7.7 (2022-07-16)

• Update the cache

WDI 2.7.6 (2022-02-25)

• WDI(extra = TRUE) includes a new lastupdated column.

WDI 2.7.5 (2022-02-02)

• Add the observation status (whether an observation is a forecast) when extra = TRUE in WDI() (#48)
• Updated cache

WDI 2.7.4 (2021-04-06)

• Bug fix for on-the-fly rename

WDI 2.7.3 (2021-03-30)

• Better error message
• Bug fixes

WDI 2.7.2 (2021-01-22)

• Add support for several languages with the "language" argument in WDI() (#15)
• Add "latest" argument in WDI(), to fetch the most recent non-NA values (#29, #43)
• Speed improvement in WDIbulk (Thanks to @etiennebacher)
• WDIbulk gets a timeout argument

WDI 2.7.1 (2020-07-05)

• Bug: did not download all countries
• WDIcache did not retrieve regions

WDI 2.7

• Updated cache.
• Allowed more than 25000 indicators. Thanks to @universal for PR #70.b

WDI 2.7.0 (2020-06-23)

• API v2
• Fix a breaking change after API v2
• per_page not large enough when dataset is big
• Monthly and quarterly data

WDI 2.6.0 (2019-03-03)

• start and end are NULL as default and download all available years.
• label attribute to the return data.frame includes descriptive labels for each
• WDIbulk function to download all of WDI
• WDIcache and data trim whitespace from region names

WDI 2.5.1 (2018-12-07)

• New # WDI numbering scheme
• Updated country and indicator data

WDI 2.5.0

• Namespace issues (thanks to Jan Dietrich)
• Updated the list of available indicators
• Allow iso3c or iso2c as input for country argument
• Rolled-back indicator input clean up because too aggressive (Thanks to Geoff Wright)
• Rename columns automatically when using a named vector

WDI 2.4.0

• Call RJSONIO::fromJSON explicitly to avoid conflict with JSON package (Thanks to Richard Cotton)

WDI 2.3.0

• Change default start/end date per user request

WDI 2.2.0

• Bug: country names were stripped of digits

WDI 2.1.0

• Fixed various issues (thanks to Matthieu Stigler for bug reports and patches)
• Faster downloads when requesting multiple countries (leveraging the US;BR;CA API syntax)

WDI 2.0.0

• Now uses JSON instead of XML (Faster, easier)
• WDIcache function now allows users to update the locally stored database of available WDI series
• Fixed doc examples
• Documentation now uses roxygen2
• Moved development to github
• Series and country info now in a single data list. utf-8 encoding fixed