Get latest data per country

latest_wdi(
  indicator = "NY.GDP.PCAP.KD",
  highlight_countries = c(""),
  start = lubridate::year(Sys.Date()) - 10,
  end = lubridate::year(Sys.Date() - months(18)),
  country = "all",
  regions = default_regions(),
  income_groups = default_income_groups()
)

Arguments

indicator: character of length 1 with the indicator code
highlight_countries: character vector with country names to highlight
start: first year to download data
end: last year to download data
country: subset of countries to download data from. Default to "all". This argument is passed as is to WDI::WDI and hence, requires 'ISO-2 character codes, e.g. "BR", "US", "CA"'.
regions: character vector to filter the data only to specific regions
income_groups: character vector to filter the data only to specific income groups

Value

data.frame with columns country, year, ind_1, region, income, highlight_ind_1. highlight_ind_1 = NA, except for highlight countries in which case, it takes the value of ind_1

Examples

if (FALSE) {
latest_wdi("NY.GDP.PCAP.KD", c("Colombia", "Germany"))
latest_wdi("NY.GDP.PCAP.KD", c("Colombia", "Germany"), 2019, 2019)
}