wbstats (version 0.2)

wbdate2POSIXct: Add a POSIXct dates to a World Bank API return

Description

Add a POSIXct date column as well as a column with the appropreiate granularity to a World Bank API return

Usage

wbdate2POSIXct(df, date_col)

Arguments

df

data frame returned from API call

date_col

name of the current date field

Value

If the package lubridate (>= 1.5.0) is available the original data frame with two new columns, data_ct and granularity is returned. If the above package is not available, the orignal data frame is returned unaltered with an additional warning message.