readecb: Access 'European Central Bank' Data

Provides clean, tidy access to statistical data published by the 'European Central Bank' ('ECB') via the 'ECB Data Portal' API <https://data.ecb.europa.eu>. Covers policy interest rates, 'EURIBOR', euro exchange rates, harmonised consumer price inflation ('HICP'), euro area yield curves, the euro short-term rate ('ESTR'), monetary aggregates (M1, M2, M3), mortgage and lending rates, GDP, unemployment, and government debt-to-GDP. Each dataset has a dedicated function that abstracts away the underlying 'SDMX' key structure, so users do not need to know series codes. A generic fetcher is also provided for direct access to any of the 'ECB' 100-plus dataflows. Data is downloaded on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls.

Version: 0.1.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.6.0), httr2 (≥ 1.0.0), tools
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-03-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.readecb (may not be active yet)
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/readecb/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/readecb
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Citation: readecb citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: readecb results

Documentation:

Reference manual: readecb.html , readecb.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: readecb_0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): readecb_0.1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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