getBIS: Download time series data from Bank of International...

In tsungwu/JFE: Tools and GUI for Analyzing Time Series Data of Just Finance and Econometrics

Download time series data from Bank of International Settlement

Description

It downloads effective exchange rates from Bank of International Settlement.

Usage

getBIS(sheet="Real", type="broad")

Arguments

sheet	The name of spreedsheet of effective exchange rates (EER)of BIS, it has two options: "Real" and "Nominal", the default is "Real" for REER.
type	The type of EER, it has two types: "broad" and "narrow". The default is "broad".

Details

This function connects with <"https://www.bis.org/statistics/eer/"> and downloads the specified data. The rownames of downloaded data embeds the timestamp already, which can be directly transformed into time series via, as.timeSeries.

Value

data	The data object.
country.info	The country information with abbreviated symbol.
data.info	The information about effective exchange rates.

Author(s)

Ho Tsung-wu <[e-mail]>, College of Management, National Taiwan Normal University.

Examples

output=getBIS(sheet=c("Nominal","Real")[1], type=c("broad","narrow")[1])
output$data
output$data.info
output$country.info

tsungwu/JFE documentation built on May 10, 2022, 1:22 p.m.