JFE (version 2.5.8)

getBIS: 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")

Value

data

The data object.

country.info

The country information with abbreviated symbol.

data.info

The information about effective exchange rates.

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".

Author

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

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.

Examples

#To save time, the example below is commented.
#output=getBIS(sheet=c("Nominal","Real")[1], type=c("broad","narrow")[1])
#output$data
#output$data.info
#output$country.info