Data for 2014 available

[xfim]

A recent update of the data of HDI is available. Would it be possible to include data for 2014 in the package?

Thank you,

[expersso]

Thanks for filing this issue. However, it appears that 2014 data is not in the API. E.g.:

http://ec2-52-1-168-42.compute-1.amazonaws.com/version/1/indicator_id/137506/country_code/DEU/year/2014

returns

"No data was found for the request version/1/indicator_id/137506/country_code/DEU/year/2014".

Indeed, no 2014 data is available (warning, big file):

http://ec2-52-1-168-42.compute-1.amazonaws.com/version/1

Investigating this further, it appears that the UNDP HDR is no longer supporting the API:

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/api # returns 404 error

I will contact the UNDP to see if they can clarify the issue further.

[xfim]

EP vas escriure el dia dg, 22 mai 2016:

I will contact the UNDP to see if they can clarify the issue further.

Perfect. Thank you. Please, keep it posted here.

• Xavier -

[xfim]

Dear @expersso , any news regarding the contact with UNDP about the API?

[expersso]

I'm afraid not. I wrote them directly after you filed the issue, even inviting them to respond here directly. However, I never received any answer, and it appears that the API is long gone. So I'm contemplating simply deprecating this package. If you have any alternative suggestions, I'd be happy to consider them.

[xfim]

I think that having a package that facilitates your life for getting the HDI indicators is a "must have" in R. I really believe there is value in it.

However, if the API is gone, maybe you can consider another alternative to provide the same result: download the data on-the-fly and present it in R.

The psData package, for instance, does this with data of the Polity IV project and I think it would be a good alternative: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psData/README.html

[expersso]

I looked into this a bit, and there appears to be three avenues forward:

1. Use Selenium to essentially scrape , i.e. specify one series, download that CSV, parse it and load into R.
2. Try to get the data out of Google Public Data. I'm not sure if there is an R package that interfaces with that already.
3. Wait for the UN Data API to add UNDP to its Organizations.

None of these alternatives is very attractive though.

[xfim]

I don't know much about 1. 3 means that you have to rely on someone else and wait.
So right now I would do 2, as https://github.com/gvegayon/googlePublicData is a package that allows to use Google Public Data.