Client for the Ifo Institute Time Series

Download ifo business survey data and more time series from ifo institute < https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series>.

ifo

Overview

The goal of ifo is to provide a simple interface to the ifo institute time series data. Feel free to open an issue if you have any suggestions.

Installation

You can install the released version of ifo from CRAN with:

install.packages("ifo")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("m-muecke/ifo")

Usage

library(ifo)

climate <- ifo_business()
head(climate)
#>    yearmonth uncertainty economic_expansion   indicator  series value
#> 1 2005-01-01          NA               83.1     climate   index  92.2
#> 2 2005-01-01          NA               83.1   situation   index  87.5
#> 3 2005-01-01          NA               83.1 expectation   index  97.2
#> 4 2005-01-01          NA               83.1     climate balance   1.5
#> 5 2005-01-01          NA               83.1   situation balance  -0.7
#> 6 2005-01-01          NA               83.1 expectation balance   3.8