stressr (version 1.0.0)

getStressIndex: Get financial stress index data.

Description

Downloads Cleveland FRB financial stress index data.

Usage

getStressIndex(verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

verbose

whether to print progress messages, default FALSE

Value

List of class type cfsi containing xts time history object df, plot colors array colors, default plot main title main, and default plot y-axis label ylab.

Details

Transforms the HTML into a data frame, transforms the character date into Date objects, and then an xts object.

References

http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/financial_stress_index/index.cfm

See Also

getStressComponents

Examples

## Not run: 
# getStressIndex()
# ## End(Not run)