bbk is minimal R client for the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) APIs.
In the future, it may be extended to other central banks and financial institutions. Feel free to open an issue if you have a specific request.
You can install the released version of bbk from CRAN with:
install.packages("bbk")And the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("m-muecke/bbk")bbk functions are prefixed with either bbk_ or ecb_ depending on the
origin of the data and follow the naming convention of the APIs. The
usual workflow would be to search for the time series key on the ECB
Portal or Bundesbank
website
and then use it to retrieve the data.
library(bbk)
# fetch 10 year daily yield curve
yield_curve <- bbk_data(
flow = "BBSIS",
key = "D.I.ZAR.ZI.EUR.S1311.B.A604.R10XX.R.A.A._Z._Z.A",
start_period = "2020-01-01"
)
yield_curve
#> # A tibble: 1,163 × 25
#> date key value title freq bearer_reg item valuation currency
#> <date> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2020-01-02 BBSIS.D.I.ZA… -0.16 Yiel… daily I ZAR ZI EUR
#> 2 2020-01-03 BBSIS.D.I.ZA… -0.27 Yiel… daily I ZAR ZI EUR
#> 3 2020-01-06 BBSIS.D.I.ZA… -0.27 Yiel… daily I ZAR ZI EUR
#> 4 2020-01-07 BBSIS.D.I.ZA… -0.27 Yiel… daily I ZAR ZI EUR
#> 5 2020-01-08 BBSIS.D.I.ZA… -0.27 Yiel… daily I ZAR ZI EUR
#> # ℹ 1,158 more rows
#> # ℹ 16 more variables: issuer_class <chr>, listed_sub <chr>,
#> # security_class <chr>, maturity <chr>, interest_type <chr>,
#> # interest_rate <chr>, redemption <chr>, certificate <chr>, coverage <chr>,
#> # rating <chr>, time_format <chr>, decimals <chr>, unit <chr>,
#> # unit_mult <chr>, category <chr>, unit_eng <chr>
- bundesbank: R scripts for downloading time-series data from the Bundesbank.
- 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.