Download Data from the 'Office for National Statistics'

Provides functions to download and tidy statistical data published by the 'Office for National Statistics' < https://www.ons.gov.uk>. Covers GDP, inflation (CPI, CPIH, RPI), unemployment, employment, wages, trade, retail sales, house prices, productivity, population, and public sector finances. Most series are fetched from the 'ONS' website using its CSV time series endpoint. House price data is sourced from 'HM Land Registry' < https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry>. Data is cached locally between sessions.

Download Australian Energy Market Operator Data

Fetch Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) public data from 'NEMweb' < http://nemweb.com.au> and the Market Management System Data Model (MMSDM) historical archive. Provides tidy access to 5-minute and 30-minute wholesale electricity prices, regional demand, dispatch-unit output, interconnector flows, rooftop photovoltaic generation, generator bids, predispatch forecasts, frequency control ancillary services markets, and gas market data across the National Electricity Market (NEM) regions. Data is published by AEMO under its Copyright Permissions Notice < https://www.aemo.com.au/privacy-and-legal-notices/copyright-permissions>.

Unified Climate Indices for Temperature, Precipitation, and Drought

Compute the standard suite of climate indices from daily weather observations. Provides the canonical 'ETCCDI' 27 (Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices), the 'ET-SCI' heatwave and cold-wave families plus the Excess Heat Factor of Nairn and Fawcett (2013), and agroclimatic, drought, and human-comfort families. Drought indices ('SPI', 'SPEI') accept a choice of distribution (gamma or Pearson III for SPI; log-logistic or generalised extreme value for SPEI). Reference evapotranspiration is available via Hargreaves and the FAO-56 Penman-Monteith method (Allen et al. 1998). Percentile-based indices support the Zhang (2005) in-base bootstrap. Daily inputs are numeric vectors plus a 'Date' vector; outputs are tidy data frames. Optional gridded support via 'terra' applies any index over a 'SpatRaster' and reads 'netCDF' input. No external API calls; pairs with data packages such as 'readnoaa'. References: Alexander et al. (2006) ; Zhang et al. (2011) ; Zhang et al. (2005) .

Access and Analyse UN Comtrade International Trade Data

Download and analyse international merchandise and services trade data from the United Nations Comtrade database < https://comtradeplus.un.org/>. Retrieve bilateral trade flows, compute trade analytics (revealed comparative advantage, trade concentration, trade balance), and convert between commodity classifications (HS, SITC, BEC). Covers 200+ reporter countries, 60+ years of goods trade data (1962-present), and services trade via EBOPS. Works without registration for basic queries. A free API key from < https://comtradedeveloper.un.org/> unlocks full access.

Access Carbon Market Data from Emissions Trading Systems and Voluntary Registries

Unified access to carbon market data from compliance emissions trading systems ('EU ETS', 'UK ETS', 'RGGI', California Cap-and-Trade) and voluntary carbon markets (Verra, Gold Standard, American Carbon Registry, Climate Action Reserve, via the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database and the 'CarbonPlan' 'OffsetsDB' API). Includes cross-market price data from the 'International Carbon Action Partnership' ('ICAP') Allowance Price Explorer < https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets-prices>, global carbon pricing from the World Bank Carbon Pricing Dashboard < https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/>, and the historical 'RFF' World Carbon Pricing Database following Dolphin, Pollitt and Newbery (2020) . Data is downloaded from public sources on first use and cached locally.

Download and Tidy Australian Taxation Office Data

Fetch Australian Taxation Office ('ATO') Taxation Statistics and related datasets via the 'data.gov.au' Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network ('CKAN') API < https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/>. Provides tidy access to individual, company, superannuation, goods and services tax ('GST'), fringe benefits tax ('FBT'), Voluntary Tax Transparency Code ('VTTC'), Pay As You Go ('PAYG') withholding, charity, excise, and Corporate Tax Transparency data, plus Division 293, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, Medicare Levy Surcharge, fuel tax credits, compliance, and Working Holiday Maker aggregates. Includes reproducibility helpers (snapshot pinning, SHA-256 cache integrity, session manifest, optional 'Zenodo' deposit), classification crosswalks ('ANZSIC' 2006 to 2020, 'ANZSCO' 2013 to 2021), panel harmonisation, reconciliation against Final Budget Outcome totals, and real-terms and per-capita helpers backed by bundled Australian Bureau of Statistics ('ABS') Consumer Price Index and Estimated Resident Population series. Bridges to the 'taxstats' 2 per cent microdata sample via column-schema mapping. Data is published by the Australian Taxation Office under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia or 3.0 Australia licences (dataset-dependent).

Yield Curve Fitting, Analysis, and Decomposition

Fits yield curves using Nelson-Siegel (1987) , Svensson (1994) , and cubic spline methods. Extracts forward rates, discount factors, and par rates from fitted curves. Computes duration and convexity risk measures. Computes Z-spread and key rate durations. Provides principal component decomposition following Litterman and Scheinkman (1991) , carry and roll-down analysis, and slope measures. All methods are pure computation with no external dependencies beyond base R; works with yield data from any source.

Tests for Instrumental Variable Validity

Implements tests for the identifying assumptions of instrumental variable models, the local exclusion restriction and monotonicity conditions required for local average treatment effect identification. Covers Kitagawa (2015) , Mourifie and Wan (2017) , and Frandsen, Lefgren, and Leslie (2023) . Includes a one-shot wrapper that runs all applicable tests on a fitted instrumental variable model. Dispatches on 'fixest' and 'ivreg' model objects.

Inequality Measurement, Decomposition, and Poverty Analysis

Tools for measuring income and wealth inequality. Computes the Gini coefficient with bootstrap or asymptotic confidence intervals following Davidson (2009) , the extended S-Gini family, Theil T and L indices (generalised entropy family), the Atkinson index, the Kolm absolute inequality index, Palma ratio, Hoover index, percentile ratios, and Lorenz curves. Supports between-within group decomposition following Bourguignon (1979) , income share tabulation, concentration indices for health inequality with Erreygers (2009) correction, Kakwani tax progressivity and Reynolds-Smolensky redistribution indices, Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures including the Sen index, growth incidence curves following Ravallion and Chen (2003) , and Wolfson polarisation. All functions accept optional survey weights and work with data from any source.

Inflation Decomposition, Core Measures, and Trend Estimation

Tools for analysing inflation dynamics. Computes weighted contributions of price index components, core inflation measures (trimmed mean, weighted median, exclusion-based) following Bryan and Cecchetti (1994) , inflation persistence via sum-of-AR-coefficients, diffusion indices, Phillips curve estimation, breakeven inflation, and trend inflation using the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition and Hodrick-Prescott filter. All functions are pure computation and work with price data from any source.