boe_get: Fetch any series from the Bank of England Statistical...

In boe: Download Data from the Bank of England Statistical Database

Fetch any series from the Bank of England Statistical Database

Description

The core data retrieval function. Fetches one or more series by their BoE series codes and returns a tidy data frame. Use this when the convenience functions (e.g. boe_bank_rate(), boe_exchange_rate()) do not cover the series you need.

Usage

boe_get(series_codes, from = "1960-01-01", to = Sys.Date(), cache = TRUE)

Arguments

series_codes	Character vector of one or more BoE series codes.
from	Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). Start date. Defaults to "1960-01-01".
to	Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). End date. Defaults to today.
cache	Logical. Use cached data if available (default TRUE).

Details

Series codes can be found via the Bank of England Interactive Statistical Database at https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/.

Value

A data frame with columns:

date

Date. Observation date.

code

Character. BoE series code.

value

Numeric. Observation value.

Source

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/

Examples

# Bank Rate since 2000
boe_get("IUDBEDR", from = "2000-01-01")

# Multiple series
boe_get(c("IUDBEDR", "IUDSOIA"), from = "2020-01-01")

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