fImport (version 260.72)

Forecasts: Import Market Data from www.forecasts.org

Description

A collection and description of functions to import financial and economic market data from the www.forecast.org web site. The functions are: ll{ forecastsImport monthly data from the Financial Forecast Center, forecastsSeries easy to use download from Financial Forecast Center.}

Usage

forecastsImport(query, file = "tempfile", 
    source = "http://www.forecasts.org/data/data/", save = FALSE, 
    try = TRUE) 
      
forecastsSeries(query, returnClass = c("timeSeries", "ts", "matrix", 
    "data.frame"), getReturns = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

getReturns

a logical flag. Should return values be computed using the function returnSeries?

file

a character string with filename, usually having extension ".csv", where to save the downloaded data.

query

a character string, denoting the location of the data at the web site.

returnClass

a character string naming the class of the object to be returned. By default the function returns a "timeSeries" object, alternatives are: "ts", "matrix", or "data.frame".

save

a logical value, if set to TRUE the downloaded data file will be stored under the path and file name specified by the string file. By default FALSE.

source

a character string with the download URL.

try

a logical value, if set to TRUE the Internet access will be checked.

...

optional arguments to be passed.

Value

• The function forecastsImport returns an S4 object of class fWEBDATA with the following slots:
• @call
  the function call.
• @data
  the data as downloaded formatted as a data.frame.
• @param
  a character vector whose elements contain the values of selected parameters of the argument list.
• @title
  a character string with the name of the download. This can be overwritten specifying a user defined input argument.
• @description
  a character string with an optional user defined description. By default just the current date when the test was applied will be returned.
• The function forecastsSeries returns an S4 object of class timeSeries or alternatively an object specified by the function argument returnClass.

Examples

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