get.US.data: Get US data for estimation procedure

In JannesRed/rStar: Natural Rate of Interest

Description

Downloads US data from FRED website and saves as a dataframe funtion takes 3 arguments - the output folder, filename, and an option to chose between output specifications.

Usage

get.US.data(folder = "data/input/", file = "rstar.data.us.csv",
  pcGDP = FALSE)

Arguments

folder	the csv to perform the HLW estimation on. Please see elp file for required column names
file	a string for the country you are performing the estimates on - this is used in the output file name
pcGDP	logical. (default) FALSE uses real GDP, TRUE uses real GDP per capita

Examples

folder <-  "data/inputData/"     # output folder
file <-  "rstar.data.us.csv"     # output filename
pcGDP <- FALSE                   # False uses real GDP, true uses real GDP per capita

get.US.data(folder = folder, file = file)

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