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Valid ISO3 codes excluded? #37

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bluefoxr opened this issue Mar 3, 2022 · 1 comment
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Valid ISO3 codes excluded? #37

bluefoxr opened this issue Mar 3, 2022 · 1 comment

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@bluefoxr
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bluefoxr commented Mar 3, 2022

Hi, thanks for the nice package first of all. I was comparing the result of downloading an indicator "GE.EST" through the wbstats package and by downloading as a csv from the World Bank data portal. I noticed a discrepancy: in the wbstats results there are five countries fewer than that found in the csv. They are: "AIA" "GUF" "JEY" "MTQ" "REU". I wonder if this is because you are cross-checking codes against your internal data frame of valid codes before running the query? These codes can indeed be found in the WB database but when I ask to download data from these codes it runs into an error.

Is it possible that the list of valid ISO codes is outdated? Or have I misunderstood something? Or is it a problem with the WB API?

Thanks for any pointers.

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jpiburn commented Mar 3, 2022

Thank you for opening this issue. I will take look and get back with you soon.

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