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2018 Jan 23
1
Scraping from different level URLs website
...ank (WB) projects on developing countries. To do so, I am scraping their website in order to collect the data I am interested in. The structure of the webpage I want to scrape is the following: 1. List of countries the list of all countries in which WB has developed projects<http://projects.worldbank.org/country?lang=en&page=> 1.1. By clicking on a single country on 1. , one gets the single countries project list (that includes many webpages) it includes all the projects in a single countries <http://projects.worldbank.org/search?lang=en&searchTerm=&countrycode_exact=3A> ....
2017 Nov 06
0
New package: data360r to access trade and governance open data
Hi everyone, We've recently launched data360r, now available on CRAN at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data360r/index.html This package makes it easy to engage with the APIs of the TCdata360 and Govdata360 open data platforms at https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/ and https://govdata360.worldbank.org/, respectively. These APIs provide access to over 5000 trade, competitiveness, and governance indicator data, metadata, and related information from over 80 sources both inside and outside the World Bank Group. Package functions include easier download of d...
2017 Nov 06
0
New package: data360r to access trade and governance open data
Hi everyone, We've recently launched data360r, now available on CRAN at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data360r/index.html This package makes it easy to engage with the APIs of the TCdata360 and Govdata360 open data platforms at https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/ and https://govdata360.worldbank.org/, respectively. These APIs provide access to over 5000 trade, competitiveness, and governance indicator data, metadata, and related information from over 80 sources both inside and outside the World Bank Group. Package functions include easier download of d...
2011 Oct 31
1
googleVis motionchart - slow with Date class
Hi, I am trying to create a googleVis motion chart with monthly data. When formatting the date column as a Date class variable, the plot as presented in the browser becomes considerably slower and very prone to crashing the browser. To illustrate this issue I have modified the WorldBank demo. ### objects from demo("WorldBank", package = "googleVis") M <- gvisMotionChart(subData, idvar="country.name", timevar="year", options=list(width=700, height=600)) plot(M) This works fine and I can smoothly move back and forth between the scatter pl...
2012 Jan 13
3
The Future of R | API to Public Databases
...ccess (and analyze) all public data in the easiest way possible. That would create a real impact, would put R a big leap forward and would enable us to see the world with different eyes. There is a lack of a direct connection to the API of these databases, to name a few: - Eurostat - OECD - IMF - Worldbank - UN - FAO - data.gov - ... The ease of access to the data is the key of information processing with R. How can we handle the flow of information noise? R has to give an answer to that with an extensive API to public databases. I would love your comments and ideas as a contribution in a vital di...
2009 Feb 17
1
using sapply to apply function to some columns of a dataframe
...ement. Thanks, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael I. Westphal, PhD Africa Region Water Resources (AFTWR) South Asia Region Sustainable Development (SASSD) World Development Report 2010: "Development in a Changing Climate" www.worldbank.org/wdr2010 Room J6-007 (mail stop: J6-603) Tel: 202.473.1217 The World Bank 1818 H St NW, Washington DC 20433, USA
2002 Sep 19
2
Samba 3 alpha19 - some testing results and problems
1. First of all, source/include/includes.h file contains wrong refence to file popt.h. In supposed to be "popt/popt.h" instead of "popt.h". After this correction source compiles OK. 2.After the installation on new alpha19 (I used alpha17 before) swat stopped authenticating (I use same credentials for Samba 2.2.5 and samba 3 swat). 3. Samba-3 shares are accessible through
2012 Apr 09
0
freelance consulting opportunity for R expert (causal inference & data visualization)
SELECTION FOR CONSULTANTS BY THE WORLD BANK REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST All Submissions must be made via the World Bank Group's "eConsult2" system. Please go to: https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org/wbgec/index.html Click on "Business Opportunities", and find the following assignment: Assignment Title: 1067014 - Statistical Analyst with Extensive Experience in "R": Applications for Causal Inference and Visualizing Data ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION Seeking a short-term con...
2016 Apr 22
0
New Package on CRAN: wbstats
Hello, I wanted to announce the release of a new package on CRAN wbstats. >From the description "Tools for searching and downloading data and statistics from the World Bank Data API (http://data.worldbank.org/developers/api-overview) and the World Bank Data Catalog API (http://data.worldbank.org/developers/data-catalog-api)" Here is a (hopefully) useful vignette if you would like to learn more https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wbstats/vignettes/Using_the_wbstats_package.html Comments an...
2007 Jul 24
1
How to add circular text for a graph with concentric circles
...aph grid.text("All Students", x=0.2,y=0.95,gp=gpar(fontsize=20,col="navy")) ************************************************************************** Suhas D. Parandekar Senior Education Economist Latin American and Caribbean Region Tel: 202 458 7622 e-mail: sparandekar at worldbank.org
2004 Jul 04
2
smooth non cumulative baseline hazard in Cox model
...he "sum" ("integration") of lambda's from 0 to t (Am I right?) What I need might be lambda(t) or lambda(t)dt (I do not know for sure), something involving the instantaneous baseline risk. But, for sure, I 've seen elsewhere what I need. Specifically, here: http://econ.worldbank.org/files/13214_CivilPeace.pdf that is page 41 of HEGRE, H??vard; ELLINGSEN, Tanja; GATES, Scott; GLEDITSCH, Nils Petter (2001). "Toward a Democratic Civil Peace? Democracy, Political Change, and Civil War, 1816-1992". American Political Science Review, vol. 95, no 1. I'm doing the s...
2017 Apr 07
3
problema con wb del paquete wbstats
Estimado Javier: No se que pasaría. ¿Cual librería usa para descargar los datos del BM? Saludos, Sebastián. El 7 de abril de 2017, 12:07, Javier Marcuzzi< javier.ruben.marcuzzi en gmail.com> escribió: > Estimado Sebastian Kruk > > > > Yo no uso esa librería, pero ¿Qué pasa si en la lista de países que envía > en la consulta, hay uno que no da resultados? Por decir
2007 Jul 30
0
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2001 Feb 16
0
Compilation aborted on alpha2
Please find attached log file of configuration and compilation of samba-2.2.0-alpha2 on Solaris 8 running on SUN Netra.t1. Compiler - gcc 2.95. I have no problem with alpha1 or stable 2.0.7. (See attached file: report.txt) Regards, Sardar Azari Information Analyst WB CO Azerbaijan Tel: +99412 92 19 41 Fax: +99412 92 14 79 WB Sat: 255-223 MSN: J B3-100 -------------- next part -------------- A
2004 Nov 03
0
samba 3.0.2a with windows XP
Hi All, Samba 3.0.2a is installed on Solaris and works fine with windows NT clients, but it doesn't work with windows XP client which complains that the share path can't find. Here is the basic coniguration: workgroup = GLOBAL netbios name = test netbios aliases = test server string = test Samba 3.0.2a interfaces = hme0 bind interfaces only