bls_download: Download data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

In davidsovich/blsr: Accessing and manipulating Bureau of Labor Statistics and NAICS data from R.

Description

bls_downloads remotely downloads data for a given set of series IDs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Usage

bls_download(seriesid, start_year, end_year, bls_key)

Arguments

seriesid	Character vector. Vector of series IDs for BLS data. Limit of 50 strings.
start_year	Numeric.
end_year	Numeric.
bls_key	Character. BLS API key. Required parameter.

Details

This function acts as a wrapper for the function bls_api from the package blscrapeR. Please see documentation for bls_api.

Examples

# National series for seasonally adjusted private sector employment and earnings
series_str = ces_seriesid(adjustment = c("S"), industries = c("05000000"),
data_types = c("01", "03"))

bls_df = bls_download(seriesid = series_str, start_year = 2006, end_year = 2010,
bls_key = Sys.getenv("BLS_KEY"))

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