fredr
fredr
provides a complete set of R
bindings to the Federal Reserve Economic
Data (FRED) RESTful API, provided by
the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The functions allow the user to search
for and fetch time series observations as well as associated metadata within the FRED
database. The core functions are
fredr_set_key()
- Set the required FRED API key for the session.fredr()
orfredr_series_observations()
- Fetch a FRED series.fredr_series_search_text()
- Search for a FRED series by text.fredr_request()
- Send a general request to the FRED API.
Objects are returned as tibbles
. The user is strongly encouraged to read the
full FRED API documentation to
leverage the full power of fredr
and the FRED API.
Installation
install.packages("fredr")
To get the development version of the package:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sboysel/fredr")
Usage
See the Get started article.
Documentation
See the documentation site.
See Also
There are several existing R
packages designed for the FRED API: