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Provides clean, tidy access to data published by the 'Office for Budget Responsibility' ('OBR'), the UK's independent fiscal watchdog. Covers the Public Finances Databank (outturn for PSNB, PSND, receipts, and expenditure since 1946), the Historical Official Forecasts Database (every 'OBR' forecast since 2010), the Economic and Fiscal Outlook detailed forecast tables (five-year projections from the latest Budget), the monthly profiles for the public finances (the 'OBR' forecast apportioned across the months of the fiscal year), the Welfare Trends Report (incapacity benefit spending and caseloads), and the Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report (50-year state pension projections). All returned objects carry provenance metadata recording the source URL, publication vintage, retrieval time, and file fingerprint, so analyses can be audited and reproduced. Data is downloaded from the 'OBR' on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls. Data is sourced from the 'OBR' website <https://obr.uk>.
| Version: | 0.6.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli, httr2, readxl, tools |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-08-02 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.obr |
| Author: | Charles Coverdale [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr/issues |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://charlescoverdale.github.io/obr/, https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Language: | en-GB |
| Citation: | obr citation info |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | obr results |
| Reference manual: | obr.html , obr.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Working with EFO forecasts (source, R code) Anatomy of a forecast revision (source, R code) Tracking fiscal policy measures since 1970 (source, R code) Pinning to a specific OBR publication (source, R code) |
| Package source: | obr_0.6.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: obr_0.6.0.zip, r-release: obr_0.6.0.zip, r-oldrel: obr_0.6.0.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): obr_0.2.5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): obr_0.2.5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): obr_0.2.5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): obr_0.2.5.tgz |
| Old sources: | obr archive |
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