fredAttributes: Download attributes of Times Series of Federal Reserve...

In AndreMikulec/econModel: Meaningful Social and Economic Data from ALFRED and elsewhere

Description

Data typically includes the Title, Series ID, Source, Release, Seasonal Adjustment, Frequency, Units, Date Range, Last Updated, and Notes.

Usage

fredAttributes(Symbol, DataSheet = F)

Arguments

Symbol	specifying the name of the symbol to be queried
DataSheet	Logical. Default is FALSE. Do not return the data payload. Otherwise, if TRUE, then also return the data payload of all of the data in an R attribute named "DataSheet".

Value

data.frame of attributes

Examples

## Not run: 

# Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities
# Source: Piger, Jeremy Max, Chauvet, Marcelle
# https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/RECPROUSM156N.txt
#
print(str(fredAttributes("RECPROUSM156N")))

'data.frame':	1 obs. of  10 variables:
$ Title             : chr "Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities"
$ SeriesID          : chr "RECPROUSM156N"
$ Source            : chr "Piger, Jeremy Max, Chauvet, Marcelle"
$ Release           : chr "U.S. Recession Probabilities"
$ SeasonalAdjustment: chr "Not Seasonally Adjusted"
$ Frequency         : chr "Monthly"
$ Units             : chr "Percent"
$ DateRange         : chr "1967-06-01 to 2020-09-01"
$ LastUpdated       : chr "2020-11-02 7:01 AM CST"
$ Notes             : chr "Smoothed recession probabilities for the United"

tail(attr(fredAttributes("RECPROUSM156N", DataSheet = T), "DataSheet"))
RECPROUSM156N
2020-04-01        100.00
2020-05-01         37.85
2020-06-01         37.85
2020-07-01         47.92
2020-08-01        100.00
2020-09-01        100.00

## End(Not run)

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