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>