search_360 {data360r} | R Documentation |
Searches using the TCdata360 API at https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/docs or Govdata360 API at https://govdata360.worldbank.org/docs. The function generates a wide dataframe containing the top search results related to the query.
search_360(
search_string = "World Bank",
site = "tc",
search_type = NULL,
limit_results = NULL
)
search_string |
string to query in TC/Govdata360 |
site |
string pertaining to the data360 site to download data from. Possible choices: 'tc' for TCdata360, 'gov' for Govdata360 |
search_type |
NULL (optional). Character vector of search types to include. Possible values include: 'indicator', 'category', 'country' Leaving this NULL will return all possible search results. |
limit_results |
NULL (optional). Number pertaining to the number of top results to be kept. |
Hint: Want to use your search results to call data? Helpful functions include:
See get_data360
to get actual indicator/dataset/country-level data.
See get_metadata360
to get indicator/dataset/country-level metadata.
See get_resources360
to get additional resource information.
List containing top search results
## Since all functions download data through API, these are wrapped with
## the "donttest" function as advised by CRAN
#search a country's code in TCdata360
search_360('Philippines', search_type = 'country')
#search for top 10 relevant indicator codes in TCdata360
search_360('GDP', search_type = 'indicator', limit_results = 10)
#search for top 10 indicators of a database in TCdata360
search_360('World Development Indicators', search_type = 'indicator',
limit_results = 10)
#search for top 10 indicators of a data provider in TCdata360
search_360('WEF', search_type = 'indicator', limit_results = 10)
#search for top 10 relevant categories in Govdata360
search_360('Governance', site='gov', search_type = 'category', limit_results = 10)