jubilee.fred_data: Internal utility to download time series data from FRED

In jubilee: Forecasting Long-Term Growth of the U.S. Stock Market and Business Cycles

Description

This utility downloads time series from FRED. Many time series that this package uses are available on FRED. Therefore, this utility is used to provide daily or monthly updates by concatenating live data to the internal static data.

Usage

jubilee.fred_data(symbol, col_out = "Close", retry = 3)

Arguments

symbol	character, the name of the time series
col_out	character, the name of the output closing price column. Default is "Close"
retry	numeric, number of retries on the URL. Default is 3.

Value

The xts object for the time series

Examples

## Not run: 
   jubilee.fred_data("VIXCLS") # VIX

## End(Not run)

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