R/BETS.R

In BETS: Brazilian Economic Time Series

#' @title BETS: A package for obtaining and analysing thousands of Brazilian economic time series.
#'
#' @description The Brazilian Economic Time Series (BETS) package provides access and
#'information about the most important Brazilian economic time series.
#'
#'These series are created by three influential centers: the Central Bank of
#'Brazil (BCB), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
#'and the Brazilian Institute of Economics, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation
#'(FVG-IBRE). Currently, there are more than 18.640 available time series, most
#'of them free of charge. Besides providing access to this vast database, the
#'package allows the user to interact with data in an easy and friendly way.
#'
#'For instance, the user can search for a time series using keywords. More
#'importantly, it installs several consecrated packages for time series
#'analysis, giving the user the option to perform a complete analysis without
#'having to worry about installing and loading other packages. In a near
#'future, the authors will publish a series of R exercises to be solved with
#'BETS and its statiscal/econometrical tools, therefore helping the user to
#'understand the behavior of brazilian time series.
#'
#' @note The authors would like to thank the support by the Getulio
#' Vargas Foundation (FGV) and make it clear that all
#' data in the package is in public domain. The rights of all centers from
#' which the series are taken are maintained. We reaffirm that BETS
#' is mainly intended for academic usage.
#'
#'
#' @author Pedro Costa Ferreira \email{pedro.guilherme@fgv.br},
#'         Jonatha Costa \email{jonatha.costa@fgv.br},
#'         Talitha Speranza \email{talitha.speranza@fgv.br},
#'         Fernando Teixeira \email{fernando.teixeira@fgv.br}
#'
#' @docType package
#' @name BETS
#'
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