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bbk (development version)

bbk 0.14.0

CRAN release: 2026-10-21

  • Date arguments such as start_date and end_date now reject impossible dates like "2024-02-30" with an informative error that names the argument, instead of failing inside as.Date().
  • Progress bars for slow paginated requests can now be turned off with options(bbk.progress = FALSE).
  • bbk_data(), bde_data(), bde_latest(), bdp_data(), bdp_series(), bis_data(), boc_data(), boe_data(), boj_data(), cnb_data(), cnb_indicators(), ecb_data(), and onb_data() now reject NA and zero-length series keys with an informative error instead of sending a malformed request.
  • bbk_data(), bdp_data(), bis_data(), and ecb_data() now convert a POSIXlt updated_after outside UTC to the correct time. It was previously read as if it were already in UTC.
  • bdp_data() no longer adds rows with a missing value for dates on which a series has no observation. They appeared when the series in a request covered different date ranges, including with last_n.
  • boc_data() with group_name and boc_metadata() work again after the Valet API added a nested metadata field and renamed groupDetails to groupDetail.
  • boc_metadata() now works for groups with a single series. It previously dropped the series_name column and added a stray group_groupSeries column.
  • boi_data() now parses the dates of weekly series, which the BoI labels with a calendar date rather than an ISO week. They were previously NA.
  • boj_data() and boj_metadata() now report the HTTP status when the BoJ returns an error that isn’t JSON, such as an HTML maintenance page, instead of failing to parse it.
  • cnb_fx_other_rates() now rejects a year_month with a month outside 01 to 12 instead of sending an invalid request.
  • cnb_fx_rates() with year now returns the currency and country columns in the requested lang, like a query by date. The yearly CNB endpoint omits the names, so they are looked up from the first and last fixings of the year.
  • nbb_data(), nbb_dimension(), and nbb_metadata() now support National Bank of Belgium (NBB) data.
  • onb_data() now returns date as a Date and freq as a name such as "monthly", like the other *_data() functions. They were previously the raw OeNB labels, such as "2005-B1" and "H". Periods use their first day, so "2005-B2" becomes 2005-07-01.
  • onb_frequency() now requires key, which the OeNB API needs, instead of failing with an HTTP 500 error.
  • onb_hierarchy() now checks that lang is a two-letter code.
  • onb_metadata(), onb_hierarchy(), and onb_toc() now include the OeNB error message, such as an unknown key or lang, instead of only “HTTP 200 OK”. The API serves these errors as text/xml, which was not recognized.
  • snb_data() and the other SNB functions now report the HTTP status when an error response is empty or isn’t JSON, instead of failing to parse it.

bbk 0.13.0

CRAN release: 2026-08-28

Breaking changes

  • bbk_data(), bbk_series(), bis_data(), boi_data(), boj_data(), ecb_data(), nob_data(), and snb_data() now return date as a Date at every frequency. Annual observations use January 1, except BoJ fiscal years, which use April 1. Weekly, quarterly, and semiannual observations use the first day of the period rather than raw labels such as "2024-Q1". This fixes corrupted dates in results that mix annual and subannual series.

New features

Bug fixes

  • banxico_data() and banxico_metadata() now enforce the API’s 20-series limit.
  • banxico_data() and banxico_metadata() now include the full error messages returned by the Banxico API.
  • bbk_data() can now combine series with different attributes.
  • bbk_data() now keeps untranslated attribute values when English translations are unavailable, so unit is no longer missing.
  • bbk_data(), bis_data(), and ecb_data() no longer treat observation attributes as series metadata.
  • bbk_metadata(), bis_metadata(), boi_metadata(), and nob_metadata() now keep entries without a name in the requested language and set their names to NA.
  • bbk_metadata(), bis_metadata(), boi_metadata(), ecb_metadata(), and nob_metadata() no longer return names nested inside codelists and concept schemes as separate rows.
  • bbk_series() now keeps leading observations when a series has a shorter metadata header.
  • bbk_series() now preserves commas in metadata fields.
  • bbk_series() now returns a numeric value column and omits observations flagged as “Nothing exists”.
  • bcb_fx_rates() now requires three-character currency codes.
  • bde_data() now supports lang = "es".
  • bde_latest() now reports unknown series keys instead of an internal error.
  • bdp_data() now detects weekly, biweekly, and semiannual frequencies. It returns NA when there are too few observations to infer a frequency instead of assuming "annual".
  • bdp_data() now returns correct values for requests covering more than one series, which previously landed on the wrong key and, for sparse responses, the wrong dates.
  • bdp_data() now fetches every page of a result instead of only the first 10 series.
  • bis_data() now uses TITLE_TS when a series has no TITLE.
  • boc_data() now returns an empty table when the requested window has no observations, such as on a weekend.
  • boc_fx_rates() now returns an empty table when the requested window has no rates.
  • boe_data() now works outside English locales.
  • boj_data() now dates fiscal half-year periods to April and October rather than treating them as calendar half-years.
  • cnb_czeonia() now returns an integer volume column when no data are available.
  • cnb_fx_other_rates() now requires either year_month or year. Omitting both previously returned an empty table rather than the documented latest month.
  • ecb_fx_rates("latest") now works outside English locales.
  • nbp_fx_rates() and nbp_gold() now reject end_date without start_date instead of ignoring it and returning the latest quotation.
  • nob_data() now requests generic SDMX data and builds series keys from dimensions only. Dataflows with extra series attributes such as SEC therefore return valid keys.
  • nob_data() now keeps dates and values aligned when observations have no value.
  • nob_data() now supports dataflows without a FREQ dimension.
  • onb_data() and onb_frequency() can now combine series with different attributes.
  • onb_metadata() no longer fails for series whose metadata lists a single release.
  • onb_toc() now matches each description to the correct element.
  • srb_data() no longer makes a second request when only end_date is supplied.
  • srb_series("groups") now flattens nested groups without error.

bbk 0.12.0

CRAN release: 2026-07-10

bbk 0.11.0

CRAN release: 2026-06-11

New features

Bug fixes

  • Data requests no longer abort when a series uses an unsupported frequency code; the code is kept and the date is returned unparsed.
  • bbk_data() now returns the correct observations per series when querying multiple keys.
  • bdp_data() now keeps missing observations as NA instead of returning an empty result.
  • bis_data() and ecb_data() now keep dates and values aligned when a series has observations without a value.
  • boc_data() now applies start_date and end_date when fetching a group, which were previously ignored.
  • boj_data() no longer errors when a series omits both the English and Japanese translations of its name or unit.
  • onb_data() no longer errors and returns an empty table when a series has no observations in the requested period.

bbk 0.10.0

CRAN release: 2026-05-16

  • bbk_data(), bis_data(), and bdp_data() gained an updated_after argument for incremental retrieval of revised observations, matching the existing parameter on ecb_data(). All four now accept a Date, POSIXct, or ISO 8601 string.
  • bis_data() now requests the SDMX generic data format explicitly, fixing a silent regression where the BIS endpoint started returning structure-specific data and the parser produced zero rows.
  • Support for Banco de Portugal (BdP) data.
  • Support for Bank of Japan (BoJ) data.
  • Support for National Bank of Poland (NBP) exchange rates and gold prices.

bbk 0.9.0

CRAN release: 2026-03-21

  • Add optional caching of API responses via options(bbk.cache = TRUE). Cached responses are stored for 1 day by default and can be customized with options(bbk.cache_max_age = seconds). Use bbk_cache_dir() to find the cache location and bbk_cache_clear() to clear it.
  • Support for Bank for International Settlements (BIS) data.
  • Support for Norges Bank (NoB) data.
  • boc_data() now returns a value column instead of rate for consistency with other data functions.
  • bde_latest() returns the most recently published value for one or more BdE series.
  • bbk_dimension() returns the dimension structure for a given Bundesbank dataflow.
  • bis_dimension() returns the dimension structure for a given BIS dataflow.
  • ecb_data() gains an updated_after parameter to retrieve only observations updated after a given timestamp.
  • ecb_dimension() returns the dimension structure for a given ECB dataflow.
  • nob_dimension() returns the dimension structure for a given Norges Bank dataflow.
  • snb_dimension() returns the dimension structure for a given SNB cube.
  • srb_calendar() returns Swedish banking calendar day information.
  • srb_cross_rates() computes cross exchange rates between two Riksbank currency series.
  • Support for Sveriges Riksbank (SRb) data.

bbk 0.8.0

CRAN release: 2025-10-01

  • Add missing data in bbk_series().
  • Support for exchange rates from the Bank of Canada (BoC).
  • Support for Bank of Canada (BoC) data.

bbk 0.7.0

CRAN release: 2025-08-25

  • Switch to checkmate for input validation.
  • Documentation improvements.
  • Support for Bank of England (BoE) data.
  • Support for Banque de France (BdF) data.
  • Support for Banco de España (BdE) data.
  • Support for Österreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) data.

bbk 0.6.0

CRAN release: 2025-02-02

  • Migration to data.table package. Internal data manipulation is now done using data.table and all functions return data.table objects.
  • Support for Swiss National Bank (SNB) data.

bbk 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2024-12-02

  • New function ecb_euro_rates() to get euro foreign exchange reference rates from the European Central Bank (ECB).

bbk 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2024-07-08

  • Support for European Central Bank (ECB) data.

bbk 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2024-06-12

  • Prefix in function name has changed from bb_ to bbk_.
  • Allow multiple keys in bbk_data().
  • Dynamically parse column names in bbk_data().
  • Support for /data/flowRef endpoint.

bbk 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2024-04-30

  • Remove missing rows in bb_series().
  • Better title and unit parsing for bb_series().

bbk 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2024-04-23

  • Initial CRAN submission.