ecb

0.4.3

Programmatic Access to the European Central Bank's Data Portal

0packages depend

13.8Kdownloads / year

90.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Eric PerssonFirst published 2015-12-116 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides an interface to the European Central Bank's Data Portal API, allowing for programmatic retrieval of a vast quantity of statistical data.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ecb", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("expersso/ecb")

Development version from expersso/ecb. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ecb

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ecb

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ecb

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

90.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

13.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,749 · ~38/day · ~1.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ expersso/ecb

20Stars

9Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

52Commits

4Contributors

52 commits · Last activity 2025-03-19 · +5.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/expersso/ecb on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

curl rsdmx xml2 httr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown dplyr lubridate ggplot2 testthat zoo

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 372 (52%)Vignettes 191 (27%)Rd 153 (21%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.5 median / 5 max
Test cases: 6 / 0.20 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

91%

Expression

88.7%

Tests / Examples

90.6% / 85% ex

Functions

8 5 exported

Complexity

2.1 avg / 5 max

Call network

8 nodes / 8 edges

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Lowest coverage

8 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
convert_dates exp	5	58%
create_query_url	3	87%
get_data exp	3	93%
get_dataflows exp	1	100%
get_description exp	1	100%
get_dimensions exp	1	100%

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Eric Persson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Eric Persson

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Franz X. Mohr

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Franz X.

no longer listed · 0.4.3

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.3Latest
2025-03-19 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.2
2023-04-20 · diff ↗
0.4.1
2022-12-15 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-12-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-12-08
repeated policy violation On Internet access
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.4.0
2021-04-01 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-04-01
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-03-21
policy violation recurrent failures of Internet access
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-18 · diff ↗
0.1
2015-12-11
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-11
Total releases: 6 / 11 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 701 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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