obr: Access Office for Budget Responsibility Data

Provides clean, tidy access to data published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the UK's independent fiscal watchdog. Covers the Public Finances Databank (outturn for PSNB, PSND, receipts, and expenditure since 1946), the Historical Official Forecasts Database (every OBR forecast since 2010), the Economic and Fiscal Outlook detailed forecast tables (five-year projections from the latest Budget), the Welfare Trends Report (incapacity benefit spending and caseloads), and the Fiscal Risks and Sustainability Report (50-year state pension projections). Data is downloaded from the OBR on first use and cached locally for subsequent calls. Data is sourced from the OBR website <https://obr.uk>.

Version:	0.2.2
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	httr2, readxl, cli
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-03-12
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.obr (may not be active yet)
Author:	Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Charles Coverdale <charlesfcoverdale at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/charlescoverdale/obr
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	obr results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

obr.html , obr.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	obr_0.2.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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