fred: Download Federal Reserve Data

In cmann3/econ311: Functions for Intermediate Macroeconomics at UNL

Description

fred downloads data from the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED).

Usage

fred(..., names = NULL, rm = TRUE, log = NULL, as_xts = FALSE)

Arguments

...	vector of FRED codes as character strings (use quotations).
names	vector of characters to replace column names in final dataframe. The length must be equal to the number of codes.
rm	logical value expressing whether or not to remove time periods that contain an NA value. Defaults to TRUE.
log	character vector describing which variables to transform using the natural logarithm.
as_xts	logical value describing whether the output should be 'xts' type.

Value

dataframe

Examples

y <- fred('GDP')
macro <- fred('GDP', 'CPIAUCSL', 'UNRATE', names = c('y', 'pi', 'u'))

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