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.
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")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