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Type: Package
Title: Programmatic Access to the European Central Bank's Data Portal
Version: 0.4.3
Date: 2025-03-19
Description: Provides an interface to the European Central Bank's Data Portal API, allowing for programmatic retrieval of a vast quantity of statistical data.
License: CC0
URL: https://github.com/expersso/ecb
BugReports: https://github.com/expersso/ecb/issues
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, dplyr, lubridate, ggplot2, testthat, zoo
Imports: curl, rsdmx, xml2, httr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Encoding: UTF-8
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-03-19 09:34:54 UTC; ericpersson
Author: Eric Persson [aut, cre], Franz X. Mohr ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Eric Persson <expersso5@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-03-19 11:30:02 UTC

Format date variable retrieved from the SDW into a proper date variable

Description

Format date variable retrieved from the SDW into a proper date variable

Usage

convert_dates(x)

Arguments

x

A vector of dates

Value

A date-formatted vector

Examples

hicp <- get_data("ICP.M.U2.N.000000.4.ANR")
hicp$obstime <- convert_dates(hicp$obstime)
str(hicp)

Retrieve data from the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse API

Description

Retrieve data from the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse API

Usage

get_data(key, filter = NULL, ...)

Arguments

key

A character string identifying the series to be retrieved

filter

A named list with additional filters (see details)

...

Arguments passed to GET (e.g. timeout(10) to add maximum request time)

Details

The filter option of get_data() takes a named list of key-value pairs. If left blank, it returns all data for the current version.

Available filter parameters:

See the SDW API for more details.

Value

A data frame

Examples

# Get monthly data on annualized euro area headline HICP
hicp <- get_data("ICP.M.U2.N.000000.4.ANR")
head(hicp)

Retrieve data frame of all datasets in the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse

Description

Retrieve data frame of all datasets in the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse

Usage

get_dataflows(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to GET (e.g. timeout(10) to add maximum request time)

Value

A dataframe

Examples

df <- get_dataflows()
head(df)

Get full, human-readable description of a series

Description

Get full, human-readable description of a series

Usage

get_description(key)

Arguments

key

A character string identifying the series to be retrieved

Value

A character vector

Examples

get_description("ICP.M.DE.N.000000+XEF000.4.ANR")

Retrieve dimensions of series in the ECB's SDW

Description

Retrieve dimensions of series in the ECB's SDW

Usage

get_dimensions(key, ...)

Arguments

key

A character string identifying the series to be retrieved

...

Arguments passed to GET (e.g. timeout(10) to add maximum request time)

Value

A list of data frames, one for each series retrieved

Examples

hicp_dims <- get_dimensions("ICP.M.U2.N.000000.4.ANR")
hicp_dims[[1]]

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