fredqd: Loading FRED-QD Data Set

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fredqdR Documentation

Loading FRED-QD Data Set

Description

fredqd loads the official FRED-QD data set and provides a few tools to manipulate the data set.

Usage

fredqd(file = "", date_start = NULL, date_end = NULL, transform = TRUE)

Arguments

file

Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a raw vector).

date_start

Date or NULL, the start date (included) of the data selection. If NULL, select till the latest data available.

date_end

Date or NULL, the end date (included) of the data selection. If NULL, select up to the earliest data available.

transform

logical, indicating Whether or not the FRED-QD data set should be transformed according to the transformation code.

Value

a subset of the (transformed) FRED-QD data of class fredqd.

Author(s)

Yankang (Bennie) Chen <yankang.chen@yale.edu>

References

Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng (2015), FRED-MD and FRED-QD: Monthly and Quarterly Databases for Macroeconomic Research. https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/mccracken/fred-databases/


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