Download UK trade data — ons_trade • ons

Downloads UK trade in goods and services data from the ONS. Available from 1948.

Usage

ons_trade(
  measure = c("balance", "exports", "imports"),
  from = NULL,
  to = NULL,
  cache = TRUE
)

Source

https://www.ons.gov.uk

Arguments

measure: Character. One of "balance" (default, trade balance), "exports" (total exports), or "imports" (total imports). All in GBP millions, current prices, seasonally adjusted.
from: Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). Start date. Defaults to NULL (all available data).
to: Date or character (YYYY-MM-DD). End date. Defaults to NULL.
cache: Logical. Use cached data if available (default TRUE).

Value

A data frame with columns:

date: Date. First day of the month.
value: Numeric. Trade value (GBP millions).

See also

Other trade and prices: ons_house_prices(), ons_retail_sales()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(ons.cache_dir = tempdir())
try(ons_trade(from = "2020-01-01"))
#> ℹ Fetching trade (balance)
#> ✖ Fetching trade (balance) [119ms]
#> 
#> Error in download_cached_ons(url, cache = cache) : 
#>   ONS returned HTTP status 429.
options(op)
# }