fred_releases: Fetch Information on a Release in FRED

Description

Each of the functions accept a release name/number and return the requested information in a data.frame.

Usage

fred_releases(key = NULL, args = list())
fred_releases_dates(key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_dates(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_series(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_sources(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_tags(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_related_tags(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_release_tables(..., key = NULL, args = list())

Arguments

key

32 character lower-cased alpha-numeric character string

args

named list of other arguments passed to the API, including "limit", "offset", "sort_order", etc. See fred_search for more details on accepted parameters.

...

character or numeric vectors of release ids to search

Value

data.frame with entries described in details

Functions

fred_releases: get all releases of economic data
fred_releases_dates: get the dates of all economic releases
fred_release: get information about a particular release
fred_release_dates: get release dates for a particular release
fred_release_series: get all series associated with a particular release
fred_release_sources: get the sources associated with a particular release
fred_release_tags: get all tags associated with a particular release
fred_release_related_tags: get all related tags associated with a particular release
fred_release_tables: get the release tables for a particular release

Details

Each function returns the following information in a data.frame.

fred_releases: Release id, its name, a url link, whether there is a press release, and realtime start and end dates
fred_releases_dates: Release id, its name, and date of release
fred_release: Release id, its name, a url link, whether there is a press release, and realtime start and end dates
fred_release_dates: Release id and its release date
fred_release_series: Series id, its title, observations start and end, frequency, units, seasonal adjustment type, popularity, realtime start and end, and when it was last updated
fred_release_sources: Source id, name of source, url link, and realtime start and end dates
fred_release_tags: Tag name and its group id, popularity of tag, number of series in each tag, when it was created, and other notes
fred_release_related_tags: Same as fred_release_tags
fred_release_tables: Release, element, parent, and series ids, type, and name