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Source: NEWS.md

ifo (development version)

Breaking changes

  • ifo_climate("export") names the climate column climate instead of ifo_climate, matching ifo_climate("import").

New features and bug fixes

  • New ifo_vintage() returns the real-time vintages of the ifo business climate for Germany and its sectors.
  • ifo_expectation("employment") finds the current employment workbook after ifo changed its filename.
  • ifo_expectation("export") no longer returns rows without observations.
  • ifo_business() sorts the long format output by yearmonth.

ifo 0.2.5

CRAN release: 2026-08-21

  • Trailing undated rows used for workbook footnotes are no longer returned.
  • ifo_business() no longer emits coercion warnings for type = "eastern" and type = "saxony".
  • ifo_business("sectors") now labels the industry index and balance columns correctly.
  • ifo_climate("world") and ifo_climate("euro") now return quarter-start dates instead of treating quarter labels as months.
  • ifo_expectation("export") no longer drops the first observation.

ifo 0.2.4

CRAN release: 2026-06-29

  • Clearer error when the ifo website returns multiple urls for a single type.

ifo 0.2.3

CRAN release: 2026-02-06

  • ifo_expectation() now returns column expectation instead of the misspelled expecation.

ifo 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2025-08-31

  • Documentation improvements.

ifo 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2025-06-07

  • Adjust to new ifo website urls.

ifo 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2024-11-28

  • Move to curl package for HTTP requests.

ifo 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2024-06-06

  • Initial CRAN submission.