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) .

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 Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, Medicare Levy Surcharge, and fuel tax credit 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).

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 (Harmonised System 'HS', Standard International Trade Classification 'SITC', Broad Economic Categories 'BEC'). Covers 200+ reporter countries, 60+ years of goods trade data (1962-present), and services trade via Extended Balance of Payments Services ('EBOPS'). Works without registration for basic queries. A free Application Programming Interface ('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 Clean Energy Regulator Data

Fetch Australian Clean Energy Regulator data on carbon credits, safeguard mechanism facilities, renewable energy certificates, and greenhouse gas reporting. Provides tidy access to the Australian Carbon Credit Unit ('ACCU') Scheme project register, Safeguard Mechanism baselines and covered emissions, Large-scale Renewable Energy Target ('LRET') power station accreditations, Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme ('SRES') installation data, the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting ('NGER') scheme, and Quarterly Carbon Market Reports < https://cer.gov.au/markets/reports-and-data>. Includes a post-Chubb ACCU integrity layer (Chubb 2022 Independent Review), Safeguard reform handling (declining industry baselines from July 2023), National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting scope discipline (Scope 1 / Scope 2 market vs location / Climate Active), reconciliation against the Quarterly Carbon Market Report, and reproducibility helpers (snapshot pinning, SHA-256 cache integrity, session manifest, optional Zenodo deposit). Data is published by the Clean Energy Regulator under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

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.

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.

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.

HM Treasury Magenta Book Policy Evaluation Primitives

Implements policy evaluation primitives from HM Treasury Magenta Book guidance (HM Treasury, 2026): theory of change and log-frame construction, evaluation planning and stakeholder mapping, power and minimum-detectable-effect calculations for randomised designs (including cluster and stepped-wedge designs following Hussey and Hughes (2007) and Hemming et al. (2015) ), Maryland Scientific Methods Scale ratings, structured confidence ratings, light-weight difference-in-differences and interrupted-time-series estimators (Bernal et al. (2017) ) with cluster-robust standard errors (Cameron and Miller (2015) ), pre-treatment balance checks (Stuart (2010) ), and cost-effectiveness analysis (cost per outcome, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, acceptability curves, incremental net benefit, quality-adjusted and disability-adjusted life years). Designed as the evaluation companion to the appraisal package 'greenbook'. Bundled rubric and reference tables carry vintage metadata for reproducibility. Aligned with the May 2026 republication of the Magenta Book.

Download Data from the 'Bank of England' Statistical Database

Provides functions to download and tidy statistical data published by the 'Bank of England' < https://www.bankofengland.co.uk>. Covers Bank Rate, 'SONIA', gilt yields, exchange rates, mortgage rates, mortgage approvals, consumer credit, and money supply. Series are fetched from the 'Bank of England Interactive Statistical Database' using its CSV endpoint. Data is cached locally between sessions.