NEWS

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wbids 1.1.5 (2026-03-20)

• Improved test coverage.
• Better safeguards against API call leakage.

wbids 1.1.4 (2026-03-10)

• Tests that made third-party API calls are now skipped on CRAN.

wbids 1.1.2 (2025-11-27)

• Add ids_get_ed() to download pre-processed tables from EconDataverse datasets on Hugging Face.

wbids 1.1.1 (2025-11-11)

• Examples that made third-party API calls are now skipped on CRAN.
• Mocks are used to prevent API calls in tests.

wbids 1.1.0 (2025-09-04)

• Rename geographies to entities across all functions (soft deprecation, no breaking change).

wbids 1.0.0 (2025-02-08)

• ids_get() Roxygen2 documentation enhancements.
• ids_get() now makes a single consolidated API call for all series and countries rather than one call per series-country combination, greatly improving performance.
• ids_get() now fails with an informative error message if the user requests too much data.
• ids_get() now takes start_year and end_year rather than start_date and end_date arguments (breaking change).

Bug fixes

• ids_list_counterparts() now contains counterpart_iso2code for all countries and regions.
• read_bulk_file() now returns the correct column for counterpart_id.
• ids_get() no longer returns NAs for some geographies.
• ids_get() no longer returns the wrong counterpart_type for some rows.
• ids_get() now removes trailing whitespace and correctly encodes special characters.
• Removed a third-party dependency that was causing tests to fail on CRAN.

wbids 0.1.0 (2024-11-15)

• Initial CRAN submission.
• Includes download of individual series via ids_get(). Use ids_list_*() functions to list supported geographies, series, and counterparts, respectively.
• Includes bulk download of multiple series via ids_bulk(). Use ids_bulk_files() and ids_bulk_series() to get information for supported files and series, respectively.