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fredr (version 0.1)

FredR: FredR: R Interface to Federal Reserve Economic Data API

Description

FredR: R Interface to Federal Reserve Economic Data API

Usage

FredR(api.key = NULL)

Arguments

api.key

API key (required). You can get the key by registering at the following address: http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html

Value

List object of class FredR. The list object consists of functions that perform the API calls (to be documented soon). For now, one can find the descriptions of particular calls and their parameters here: http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/?utm_source=research&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=data-tools

Details

This package provides an interface to the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API. FRED covers 240,000 US and international macroeconomic time series from 77 sources (including the World Bank, OECD, and BIS). FredR has been designed in a way that gives a user a complete interface to all available functionalities of the API.