describe_md: Describe selected variables in the FRED-MD Data Set

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Describe selected variables in the FRED-MD Data Set

Description

describe_md provides a description of the selected variables in the FRED-MD data set.

Usage

describe_md(varname, name.only = TRUE)

Arguments

varname	string or a vector strings of the FRED variable name, such as GDPC1.
name.only	logical. If TRUE, return a dataframe with variable names and types of transformation only; if FALSE, return a dataframe with more details.

Value

a vector of variable names, or a data frame with detailed descriptions.

Author(s)

Yankang (Bennie) Chen <[e-mail]>

References

Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng (2015), FRED-MD Updated Appendix. https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.fred.stlouisfed.org/fred-md/Appendix_Tables_Update.pdf

Examples

library(fbi)
varnames <- describe_md(c("RPI", "RETAILx"), name.only = TRUE)

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