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Programmatic Access to the European Central Bank's Data Portal

v0.4.3 · Mar 19, 2025 · CC0

Description

Provides an interface to the European Central Bank's Data Portal API, allowing for programmatic retrieval of a vast quantity of statistical data.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-macos-arm64 ERROR
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
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ERROR r-devel-macos-arm64

examples

Running examples in ‘ecb-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: convert_dates
> ### Title: Format date variable retrieved from the SDW into a proper date
> ###   variable
> ### Aliases: convert_dates
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> hicp <- get_data("ICP.M.U2.N.000000.4.ANR")
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  Timeout was reached [data-api.ecb.europa.eu]:
Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds
Calls: get_data ... request_fetch.write_memory -> <Anonymous> -> raise_libcurl_error
Execution halted

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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 30, 2026
ERROR r-devel-macos-arm64

examples

Running examples in ‘ecb-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: convert_dates
> ### Title: Format date variable retrieved from the SDW into a proper date
> ###   variable
> ### Aliases: convert_dates
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> hi
...[truncated]...
or in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  Timeout was reached [data-api.ecb.europa.eu]:
Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds
Calls: get_data ... request_fetch.write_memory -> <Anonymous> -> raise_libcurl_error
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 21, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 19, 2026
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'ecb_edp.Rmd' using rmarkdown

Quitting from ecb_edp.Rmd:142-145 [get_description_example]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<error/rlang_error>
Error i
...[truncated]...
-api.ecb.europa.eu]:
Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 600 seconds
--- failed re-building 'ecb_edp.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  'ecb_edp.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 14, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘ecb-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: get_description
> ### Title: Get full, human-readable description of a series
> ### Aliases: get_descripti
...[truncated]...
andle = handle) : 
  Timeout was reached [data-api.ecb.europa.eu]:
Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 600 seconds
Calls: get_description ... request_fetch.write_memory -> <Anonymous> -> raise_libcurl_error
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

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Version History

new 0.4.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff Mar 18, 2025
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Apr 19, 2023
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Dec 14, 2022
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.2 diff Mar 31, 2021
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff Mar 17, 2016
new 0.1 Dec 10, 2015