Changelog • boe

boe 0.2.0

New boe_mpc_decisions(from, to): history of MPC rate-change events derived from the daily Bank Rate series. Returns date, new rate, previous rate, change in basis points, and direction.
New boe_mpc_votes(): full MPC voting record from June 1997, parsed from BoE’s published mpcvoting.xlsx. Long format with one row per (meeting, member) including a dissent flag.
New boe_mpr_forecasts(series, month, year): Monetary Policy Report forecast paths for CPI inflation, GDP growth, GDP level, unemployment, and Bank Rate. Parses the Projections Databank workbook from the per-release MPR zip. Defaults to the latest published quarterly release; older releases are accessible via month / year (post-2025 format only).

New boe_series exported dataset: a 52-row catalogue of every BoE series wrapped by the package, with code, title, category, frequency, unit, start date, and seasonal-adjustment flag.
New boe_search(query, category, frequency): keyword + filter search over boe_series. Case-insensitive substring match against title and code.
New boe_browse(category, frequency): filter-only view of boe_series. Equivalent to boe_search() with no keyword.

New boe_curve(curve, measure): full Anderson-Sleath fitted yield curves at all maturities (typically 0.5 to 25 or 40 years), covering nominal gilt, real gilt, implied inflation, and OIS curves. Both spot and forward measures available where published. Latest month of daily data; archive coverage planned.
References Anderson and Sleath (2001, BoE Working Paper 126).
Adds readxl to Suggests (used only by boe_curve(); lazily required at call time).

New boe_cache_info(): report cache directory, file count, total size, and modification timestamp range. Companion to clear_cache().

New boe_tbl S3 class. All boe_*() functions now return data frames carrying provenance metadata (series codes, date range, frequency, function called, fetch timestamp). Subclasses data.frame so downstream operations are unaffected.
New print.boe_tbl() method shows a one-line provenance header above the data frame body, mirroring the fred_tbl pattern in the fred package.

CRAN release: 2026-03-17

Examples now cache to tempdir() instead of the user’s home directory, fixing CRAN policy compliance for \donttest examples.
Cache directory is now configurable via options(boe.cache_dir = ...).

CRAN release: 2026-03-12

Initial release.
boe_get(): fetch any series by code from the BoE Statistical Database.
boe_bank_rate(): Bank Rate history (daily or monthly, from 1975).
boe_sonia(): SONIA interest rate (daily, monthly, or annual, from 1997).
boe_yield_curve(): nominal and real gilt yields at 5yr, 10yr, 20yr maturities (from 1985/1993).
boe_exchange_rate(): daily sterling exchange rates for 27 currencies (from 1975).
list_exchange_rates(): catalogue of available currency codes.
boe_mortgage_rates(): quoted mortgage rates (2yr/3yr/5yr fixed, SVR, from 1995).
boe_mortgage_approvals(): monthly mortgage approvals for house purchase (from 1993).
boe_consumer_credit(): consumer credit outstanding by type (from 1993).
boe_money_supply(): M4 broad money amounts outstanding (from 1982).
clear_cache(): delete locally cached data files.