WBSTATS - Can't get Oil Data?

gshs-ornl / wbstats

wbstats: An R package for searching and downloading data from the World Bank API

http://gshs-ornl.github.io/wbstats/

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WBSTATS - Can't get Oil Data? #10

Closed rulla closed 5 years ago

rulla commented 6 years ago

Hi All, I ran the devtools::install_github("GIST-ORNL/wbstats") but still cant get CRUDE_BRENT data? could you please help? "oil_data <- wb(indicator = "CRUDE_BRENT", mrv = 10, freq = "M", POSIXct = TRUE)" "No data was returned for any requested country and indicator. Returning empty data frame"

Thank you

jpiburn commented 6 years ago

thanks for letting me know. I'll look into this as soon as I can and come back with an update

vincentarelbundock commented 5 years ago

Hey there. I've been getting emails and improvement suggestions for my WDI packages. I hadn't looked at wbstats in a while, and wondered what it looked like these days. Very nice! Seems pretty much feature complete.

Honestly, I don't see much of a point in keeping up maintenance on WDI if you plan to keep wbstats rolling. But before I launch into deprecation cycle, I just want to make sure that you guys plan to keep it going. I hit this issue in my own tests, and it looks pretty old, so I'm just curious about your long term plans for the package.

Cheers!

jpiburn commented 5 years ago

Hi Vincent. Thanks for reaching out, I appreciate the kind words! I do plan to keep up maintenance on wbstats and hopefully add new / mature existing capabilities in the future. Your WDI package was such a great inspiration when we started out with wbstats, if you do decide to deprecate, I will make sure your contributions are noted in wbstats

As for this specific issue, it was due to the world bank temporarily removing the GEM data from their API and now that I just checked again, GEM is available in the API once again, however, their data on oil prices is no longer being reported