Provides a convenient way of accessing data published by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) on their website, < https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics>. A range of financial and economic data is provided in spreadsheet format including exchange and interest rates, commercial lending statistics, Reserve Bank market operations, financial institution statistics, household financial data, New Zealand debt security information, and economic indicators. This package provides a method to download those spreadsheets and read them directly into R.
The RBNZ package allows users to download data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand website.
An overview of the package can be found on CRAN or in vignettes/Overview.Rmd.
## Install from CRAN:
install.packages('RBNZ')
## Install the development version from GitHub:
## install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rntq472/RBNZ")
The main entry point is the getSeries function where users can choose
a data series to retrieve:
library(RBNZ)
m1 <- getSeries('M1')
One option is to email the RBNZ and request that your (static) public IP address be whitelisted. The email to contact is listed here.
The second option is to download the necessary files from the RBNZ website manually through your browser and then use this package to read and organise them. This can be done by downloading the spreadsheets needed and saving them in a given directory without changing their file names. This could be done from the individual series page or from the summary page.
For example for the B1 series a user could download and save the following spreadsheets:
They could then load the data as follows:
library(RBNZ)
dat <- getSeries('B1', destDir = 'path_to_downloaded_files', cacheOnly = TRUE)
If you are always having to do this then you can specify the download
path in your .Rprofile using
options(RBNZ.destDir = "path/to/stored/files").