NEWS

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BISdata 0.3-0

• add 'zoo' support for dataset central-bank policy rates ("WS_CBPOL_csv_flat") and CPI ("WS_LONG_CPI_csv_flat")
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BISdata 0.2-3 (2024-05-01)

• 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• 'datasets' has been replaced by a stub that currently only crudely collects all CSV-filenames from the website

BISdata 0.2-2 (2023-09-11)

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

BISdata 0.2-1 (2022-11-16)

• '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

BISdata 0.2-0 (2022-10-06)

• more datasets are now supported
• add 'zoo' support for dataset USD exchange rates ("full_xru_d_csv_row.zip")
• function 'fetch_dataset' gains an argument 'frequency'

BISdata 0.1-1 (2022-03-09)

• 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.