bbk-package: bbk: Client for Central Bank APIs

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bbk: Client for Central Bank APIs

Description

A client for retrieving data and metadata from central bank APIs including 'Banco Central do Brasil' (BCB), 'Banco de España' (BdE), 'Banco de México' (Banxico), 'Banco de Portugal' (BdP), 'Bank for International Settlements' (BIS), 'Bank of Canada' (BoC), 'Bank of England' (BoE), 'Bank of Israel' (BoI), 'Bank of Japan' (BoJ), 'Banque de France' (BdF), 'Czech National Bank' (CNB), 'Deutsche Bundesbank' (BBk), 'European Central Bank' (ECB), 'National Bank of Belgium' (NBB), 'National Bank of Poland' (NBP), 'Norges Bank' (NoB), 'Oesterreichische Nationalbank' (OeNB), 'Sveriges Riksbank' (SRb), and 'Swiss National Bank' (SNB).

Options

  • bbk.cache: Cache API responses on disk. Default FALSE. See bbk_cache_dir().

  • bbk.cache_max_age: Delete cached responses older than this many seconds. Default 86400 (1 day). It doesn't extend how long a response is reused, which each API decides. See bbk_cache_dir().

  • bbk.progress: Show a progress bar for paginated requests that take longer than a few seconds. Default TRUE. Set to FALSE to hide it.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Maximilian Mücke muecke.maximilian@gmail.com (ORCID)

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See Also

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bbk documentation built on Oct. 21, 2026, 5:14 p.m.