This is an R package providing clean data sets and helper functions for working with World Bank data.
So far, it has three sets of features:
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It contains cleaned datasets useful for analyzing World Bank data. These datasets have key features and groupings for the 218 countries (and some non-countries) that the World Bank data covers. These can be found by typing "wb_" after the package is loaded.
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It contains World Bank color palettes and ggplot2 compatible functions. The colors come from the World Bank Branding and Visual Identity Guidelines (...mostly).
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It contains helper functions built on the countrycode package that convert country names written in different formats into iso3c country codes.
This is in a very initial stage now, and will likely be changing quickly. For the time being, this is intended mostly for my own personal use, and I have no plans on submitting the package to CRAN. I've hosted it on Github because I hope others will find the code useful.
This is a personal project, and is not a product of the World Bank.