wbstats::wbdatacatalog() triggers Error: API call executed successfully, but did not return expected json format

[joachim-gassen]

Hi all:

Thank you very much for this super useful package. It seems that since Tuesday (Feb, 8) the World Bank API acts up as at least for me calling wbdatactalog() yields

packageVersion("wbstats")
[1] ‘1.0.5.9000’
wbstats::wbdatacatalog()
Error: API call executed successfully, but did not return expected json format

For what it is worth the related API call (http://api.worldbank.org/v2/datacatalog?format=json) reports a data not found error (160) so it does not appear to return successfully.

Thanks for looking into this!

Joachim

[jpiburn]

Hi. Thank you for your patience. I will look into this and let you know what I find.