Title: Client for the Ifo Institute Time Series
Version: 0.2.1
Description: Download ifo business survey data and more time series from ifo institute https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://m-muecke.github.io/ifo/, https://github.com/m-muecke/ifo
BugReports: https://github.com/m-muecke/ifo/issues
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: curl, data.table (≥ 1.15.0), readxl, rvest, utils
Suggests: ggplot2, knitr, testthat (≥ 3.2.0)
Config/Needs/website: knitr, rmarkdown
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-06-07 15:23:01 UTC; mmuecke
Author: Maximilian Mücke ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Maximilian Mücke <muecke.maximilian@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-06-07 15:40:02 UTC

ifo: Client for the Ifo Institute Time Series

Description

Download ifo business survey data and more time series from ifo institute https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Maximilian Mücke muecke.maximilian@gmail.com (ORCID)

See Also

Useful links:

Return ifo business climate data

Description

Return ifo business climate data

Usage

ifo_business(
  type = c("germany", "sectors", "eastern", "saxony"),
  long_format = TRUE
)

Arguments

type

(character(1)) Defaults to "germany". One of:

  • "germany": returns the ifo business climate index for Germany.

  • "sectors": returns the ifo business climate index for different sectors.

  • "eastern": returns the ifo business climate index for eastern Germany.

  • "saxony": returns the ifo business climate index for Saxony.

long_format

(logical(1)) If TRUE return the data in long format. Only applies to type "germany" and "sectors". Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame() containing the monthly ifo business climate time series.

Source

https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series

See Also

The article for a reproducible example.

Examples


ifo_business("germany")

Return ifo climate data

Description

Return ifo climate data

Usage

ifo_climate(type = c("import", "export", "world", "euro"))

Arguments

type

(character(1)) Defaults to "import". One of:

  • "import": returns the ifo import climate.

  • "export": returns the ifo export climate.

  • "world": returns the ifo world economic climate.

  • "euro": returns the ifo world economic climate for the euro zone.

Value

A data.frame() containing the monthly ifo climate time series.

References

Grimme C, Lehmann R, Nöller M (2018). “Das ifo Importklima – ein erster Frühindikator für die Prognose der deutschen Importe.” ifo Schnelldienst, 71(12), 27–32.

Grimme, Christian, Lehmann, Robert, Nöller, Marvin (2021). “Forecasting imports with information from abroad.” Economic Modelling, 98, 109–117.

Examples


ifo_climate("import")

Return ifo expectation data

Description

Return ifo expectation data

Usage

ifo_expectation(type = c("export", "employment"))

Arguments

type

(character(1)) Defaults to "employment". One of:

  • "export": returns the ifo export expectations for manufacturing.

  • "employment": returns the ifo employment barometer for Germany.

Value

A data.frame() containing the monthly ifo expectation time series.

Source

https://www.ifo.de/en/ifo-time-series

Examples


ifo_expectation("export")