FRED: Get one or more series from FRED

In donboyd5/apitools: Tools For Using the BEA and Census APIs

Description

FRED returns a data frame with series data

Usage

FRED(svec, key, full)

Arguments

svec	character vector with list of series
key	Your FRED API key (can be obtained for free - check http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html)
full	determines whether to return all data including realtime dates default returns series name, date, and value

Details

Queries the FRED API to get the requested data

"Nicknames" are allowed for certain commonly used series:

gdp.q, gdp.a for nominal gdp, quarterly or annual

gdppi.q, gdppi.a for gdp price index, quarterly or annual

rgdp.q, rgdp.a for real gdp, quarterly or annual

Value

data frame

Examples

## Not run: 
require(dplyr)
df <- FRED("GDP")
head(df)
df <- FRED(c("GDP", "GNP"))
tail(df)
vlist <- c("GDP", "GNP", "GDPCTPI", "GNPCA")
df <- FRED(vlist)
tail(df)
count(df, series)
count(df, freq)

## End(Not run)

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