BISdata – Download Data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

0.1-1

Mon, 7 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

First release. The package provides functions for downloading data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS; https://www.bis.org/ ) in Basel. Supported are only full datasets in (typically) CSV format. The package is lightweight and without dependencies; suggested packages are used only if data is to be transformed into particular data structures, such as 'zoo' objects. Downloaded data can optionally be cached, to avoid repeated downloads of the same files.

Thu, 6 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

'fetch_dataset' gains several arguments, such as 'header' and 'sep', which define the default settings for 'read.table'. The function now correctly parses datasets such as 'full_spp_csv.zip' that use double-quoted elements (thanks to Matthias Meiksner/IZE85 for reporting on GitHub).
there is an additional public repository at sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~enricoschumann/BISdata

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0200

add 'zoo' support for dataset central-bank policy rates ("full_cbpol_d_csv_row.zip")

Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

The BIS has announced to discontinue the provision of the CSV datasets listed at https://www.bis.org/statistics/full_data_sets.htm. Bulk downloads should be made from the new BIS data portal. Argument 'bis.url' has been changed accordingly, though as of 31 January the old datasets were still available and could be retrieved with bis.url = "https://www.bis.org/statistics/" .
'datasets' has been replaced by a stub that currently only crudely collects all CSV-filenames from the website

add 'zoo' support for dataset central-bank policy rates ("WS_CBPOL_csv_flat") and CPI ("WS_LONG_CPI_csv_flat")
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