ed_fred: query FRED economic data

In ShichenXie/pedar: Public Economic Data and Quantitative Analysis

query FRED economic data

Description

ed_fred provides an interface to access the economic data provided by FRED (https://fred.stlouisfed.org)

Usage

ed_fred(symbol = NULL, date_range = "10y", from = NULL,
  to = Sys.Date(), na_rm = FALSE, print_step = 1L)

Arguments

symbol	symbols of FRED economic indicators. It is available via function ed_fred_symbol or its website. Default is NULL, which calls ed_fred_symbol in the back.
date_range	date range. Available value includes '1m'-'11m', 'ytd', 'max' and '1y'-'ny'. Default is '10y'.
from	the start date. Default is NULL. If it is NULL, then calculate using date_range and end date.
to	the end date. Default is the current date.
na_rm	logical, whether to remove missing values. Default is FALSE
print_step	a non-negative integer, which will print symbol name by each print_step iteration. Default is 1L.

Value

a list of dataframes with columns of symbol, name, date, value, geo, unit. The geo column might be NA according to local internet connection.

Examples

dat = ed_fred(c("A191RL1A225NBEA", "GDPCA"))

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