readecb

0.1.2

Access 'European Central Bank' Data

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1.9Kdownloads / year

94.5%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Charles CoverdaleFirst published 2026-03-191 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides clean, tidy access to statistical data published by the 'European Central Bank' ('ECB') via the 'ECB Data Portal' API https://data.ecb.europa.eu. Covers policy interest rates, 'EURIBOR', euro exchange rates, harmonised consumer price inflation ('HICP'), euro area yield curves, the euro short-term rate ('ESTR'), monetary aggregates (M1, M2, M3), mortgage and lending rates, GDP, unemployment, and government debt-to-GDP. Each dataset has a dedicated function that abstracts away the underlying 'SDMX' key structure, so users do not need to know series codes. A generic fetcher is also provided for direct access to any of the 'ECB' 100-plus dataflows. Data is downloaded on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls.

Install

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

install.packages("readecb", 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("charlescoverdale/readecb")

Development version from charlescoverdale/readecb. 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-readecb

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-readecb

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-readecb

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 55 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.43

94.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-20
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 840 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 6%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,633 · ~5/day · ~162/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ charlescoverdale/readecb

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Last activity 2026-05-04

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cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Dependencies

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3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.1.0

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cli httr2tools

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Maintainer (1)

Charles Coverdale

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Charles Coverdale

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-03-19 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-19
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
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