rnbp

Intro

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) is the central bank of Poland responsible for issuing the polish currency, the złoty. NBP exposes a public API providing data regarding current and previous exchange rates and gold prices. The goal of the rnbp package is to provide access to the API from R.

The goal of this document is to present the functionalities of the package along with examples on how the retrieved data can be used. All of the endpoints expose the same set of of functionalities:

• retrieval of the currently effective data
• retrieval of data that was published today
• retrieval of the last N records
• retrieval of data from a specific date
• retrieval of data from a specific time interval

Exchange rate tables

The NBP API exposes endpoints for retrieving exchange rate tables. At the time of writing this document three tables are available:

• table A - contains the average exchange rate of foreign currencies
• table B - contains the average exchange rate of foreign currencies
• table C - contains the bid and ask prices of foreign currencies

An example of retrieving the currently effective exchange rate table is presented below:

library(ggplot2)
library(rnbp)

## Retrieve current C exchange rate table
response <- get_current_exchangerate_table("C")

## Retrieve content from the response
current_exchangerate_table <- response$content$rates[[1]]

knitr::kable(current_exchangerate_table)

This data can be then easily used for plotting:

ggplot(current_exchangerate_table, aes(x = code, y = bid, fill = code)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Exchange rates

The API exposes endpoints for fetching exchange rates for specific currencies. An example of fetching the last 20 exchange rates of euros and dollars is presented bellow:

## Retrieve last 20 exchange rates for euros
euros_response <- get_last_n_exchangerates("A", "EUR", 20)

## Retrieve last 20 exchange rates for euros
dollars_response <- get_last_n_exchangerates("A", "USD", 20)

## Retrieve rates data
euros_data <- euros_response$content$rates
dollars_data <- dollars_response$content$rates

## Add currency code columns
euros_data$code <- euros_response$content$code
dollars_data$code <- dollars_response$content$code
currency_data <- rbind(euros_data, dollars_data)

ggplot(currency_data, aes(x = effectiveDate, y = mid, col = code)) +
  geom_line() + 
  geom_point()

Gold prices

The API also exposes endpoints providing information regarding the gold prices calculated by the National Bank of Poland. An example of retrieving gold prices from the last 90 days is presented below:

current_date <- Sys.Date()
response <- get_goldprice_from_interval(current_date - 90, current_date)

ggplot(response$content, aes(x = data, y = cena)) + 
  geom_point() +
  geom_line() +
  geom_smooth()