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ecbr

Note this package is retired in favor of the bbk package, which provides additional central bank data sources.

ecbr is a minimal R client for the ECB API.

Installation

You can install the development version of ecbr from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("m-muecke/ecbr")

Usage

library(ecbr)

# fetch US dollar/Euro exchange rate
fx_rate <- ecb_data("EXR", "D.USD.EUR.SP00.A", start_period = "2021-01-01")
fx_rate
#> # A tibble: 898 × 16
#>   date       key           value title description freq  currency currency_denom
#>   <date>     <chr>         <dbl> <chr> <chr>       <chr> <chr>    <chr>         
#> 1 2021-01-04 D.USD.EUR.SP…  1.23 US d… ECB refere… daily USD      EUR           
#> 2 2021-01-05 D.USD.EUR.SP…  1.23 US d… ECB refere… daily USD      EUR           
#> 3 2021-01-06 D.USD.EUR.SP…  1.23 US d… ECB refere… daily USD      EUR           
#> 4 2021-01-07 D.USD.EUR.SP…  1.23 US d… ECB refere… daily USD      EUR           
#> 5 2021-01-08 D.USD.EUR.SP…  1.23 US d… ECB refere… daily USD      EUR           
#> # ℹ 893 more rows
#> # ℹ 8 more variables: exr_type <chr>, exr_suffix <chr>, decimals <chr>,
#> #   source_agency <chr>, time_format <chr>, collection <chr>, unit_mult <chr>,
#> #   unit <chr>

Related work

ecb: R interface to the European Central Bank’s Statistical Data Warehouse (SDW) API.
rsdmx: R package for reading SDMX data and metadata.
readsdmx: R package for reading SDMX data and metadata.
pdfetch: R package for downloading economic and financial time series from public sources.

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