eFRED (version 0.1.0)

fred_sources: Fetch Information on a Data Source in FRED

Description

Each of the functions accept a source number and return the requested information in a data.frame.

Usage

fred_sources(key = NULL, args = list())
fred_source(..., key = NULL, args = list())
fred_source_releases(..., key = NULL, args = list())

Arguments

key

32 character lower-cased alpha-numeric character string

args

named list of other arguments passed to the API, mostly for fred_source_releases, 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_sources: get all sources of economic data

• fred_source: get information about a particular source

• fred_source_releases: get releases by a particular source

Details

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

fred_sources

Source id, its name, a url link, and realtime start and end dates

fred_source

Same as fred_sources

fred_source_releases

Release id, its name, a url link, whether there is a press release, and realtime start and end dates