BETS.search: Search for a Brazilian Economic Time Series
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note References Examples

Searches the BETS databases for a time series by its description, source, periodicity, code, data, unit of measurement and database name.

1 2	BETS.search(description = "*", src, periodicity, unit, code, start, view = TRUE, lang = "en")

`description`	A `character`. A search string to look for matching series descriptions. Check the syntax rules under the 'Details' section for better performance.
`src`	A `character`. The source of the series. See the 'Details' section for a list of the available sources.
`periodicity`	A `character`. The periodicity of the series. See the 'Details' section for a list of possible values.
`unit`	A `character`. The unit of measurement of the data. See the 'Details' section for a list of possible values.
`code`	An `integer`. The index of the series within the database.
`start`	A `date`. Starting date of the series.
`view`	A `boolean`. The default is `TRUE`. If set to `FALSE`, the results are NOT going to be shown.
`lang`	A `character`. The search language. The default is "en" for english, but "pt" for portuguese is also possible.

Syntax rules for the parameter description, the search string to look for matching series descriptions:
1. To search for alternative words, separate them by white spaces. Example: description = "ipca core" means that the series description must contain 'ipca' AND'core'
2. To search for whole expressions, surround them with ' '. Example: description = "'core ipca' index" means that the series description must contain 'core ipca' AND 'index'
3. To exclude words from the search, insert a ~ before each of them. Example: description = "ipca ~ core" means that the series description must contain 'ipca' AND must NOT contain 'core'
4. To exclude whole expressions from the search, surround them with code' ' and insert a ~ before each of them. Example: description = "~ 'ipca core' index" means that the series description must contain 'index' AND must NOT contain 'core ipca'
5. It is possible to search for multiple words or expressions and to negate multiple words or expressions, as long as the preceeding rules are observed.
6. The white space after the negation sign (~) is not required. But the white spaces AFTER expressions or words ARE required.

Possible values for the parameter src:

IBGE	Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
BCB	Central Bank of Brazil
FGV	Getulio Vargas Foundation
FGv-IBRE	Getulio Vargas Foundation - Brazilian Institute of Economics
BCB e FGV	Central Bank of Brazil and Getulio Vargas Foundation
BCB-Deban	Cetral Bank of Brazil - Department of Banking and Payments
BCB-Depin	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of International Reserves
BCB-Derin	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of International Affairs
BCB-Desig	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of Financial Monitoring
BCB-Secre	Central Bank of Brazil - Executive Secretariat
BCB-Demab	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of Open Market Operations
BCB-Denor	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of Financial System Regulation
BCB-Depec	Central Bank of Brazil - Department of Economics
Sisbacen	Central Bank of Brazil Information System
Abecip	Brazilian Association of Real Estate Loans and Savings Companies

Possible values for the parameter periodicity:

A anual data

M monthly data

Q quaterly data

W weekly data

D daily data
Possible values for the parameter unit:

R$ brazilian reais

$ US dolars

% percentage

A list that can be interpreted as a data.frame. The fields are described below.

code	The code/index of the series within the database
description	The description of the series
periodicity	The periodicity of the series
start	Starting date of the series
source	The source of the series
unit	The unit of measurement of the data

This function uses specific version of the RMySQL package. If it does not run correctly, try installing version 0.10.9 of the RMySQL package using:

> remove.packages("RMySQL") # If necessary > install.packages("devtools) # If necessary > devtools::install_version("DBI", version = "0.5", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org") > devtools::install_version("RMySQL", version = "0.10.9", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

Central Bank of Brazil

#not run
#BETS.search(description="sales",view = FALSE)
# Output: BETS-package: Found 55 out of 12981 time series

#BETS.search(src="Denor", view = FALSE)
# Output: BETS-package: Found 1 out of 12981 time series

#BETS.search(periodicity="A", view = FALSE)
# Output: BETS-package: Found 2308 of 12981 time series