samadb-package {samadb}

South Africa Macroeconomic Database API

Description

An R API providing access to a relational database with public macroeconomic data for South Africa, obtained from from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Statistics South Africa (STATSSA), and updated on a regular basis via the EconData (https://www.econdata.co.za/) platform and automated scraping of the SARB and STATSSA websites. The database is maintained at the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University.

Functions

Functions and data providing information about the available data

sm_datasources()
sm_datasets()
sm_series()

Function to retrieve the data from the database

sm_data()

Functions to reshape data and add temporal identifiers

sm_pivot_wider()
sm_pivot_longer()
sm_expand_date()

Function to export wide format data to Excel

sm_write_excel()

Helper functions to convert inputs to R dates and transpose the data

sm_as_date()
sm_transpose()

Global Macros with core ID variables in the database

.SAMADB_ID
.SAMADB_T