pedquant (version 0.2.4)

ed_fred: query FRED economic data

Description

ed_fred provides an interface to access the economic data provided by FRED (https://fred.stlouisfed.org)

Usage

ed_fred(symbol = NULL, date_range = "10y", from = NULL,
  to = Sys.Date(), na_rm = FALSE, print_step = 1L)

Value

a list of dataframes with columns of symbol, name, date, value, geo, unit. The geo column might be NA according to local internet connection.

Arguments

symbol

symbols of FRED economic indicators. It is available via function ed_fred_symbol or its website. Default is NULL, which calls ed_fred_symbol in the back.

date_range

date range. Available value includes '1m'-'11m', 'ytd', 'max' and '1y'-'ny'. Default is '10y'.

from

the start date. Default is NULL. If it is NULL, then calculate using date_range and end date.

to

the end date. Default is the current date.

na_rm

logical, whether to remove missing values. Default is FALSE

print_step

a non-negative integer, which will print symbol name by each print_step iteration. Default is 1L.

Examples

# \donttest{
dat = ed_fred(c("A191RL1A225NBEA", "GDPCA"))
# }