R package for World Bank Data

A little while ago I posted about how the World Bank data is open to the public for research.  This apparently is just the beginning of what is possible with having free access to a lot of really good data sets on socio-economic information.  R-chart blog just recently posted saying that an R package was developed as an API to access the World Bank data.

This opens up a lot more data mining opportunities and could just be the start of some great analytic research.  I'm really looking forward to seeing what some of the great R minds will find with the World Bank data at their fingertips.  Since R is freely available anyway this merger makes sense on all sorts of levels.  Happy data mining!


 
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