bulast: Request data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics API

In fcocquemas/bulast: Simpler Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) API Wrapper

Description

Request data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics API

Usage

bulast(seriesid, startyear = NULL, endyear = NULL, registrationKey = NULL,
  catalog = NULL, calculations = NULL, annualaverage = NULL)

Arguments

seriesid	character vector of series identifiers
startyear	integer start year for the data
endyear	integer end year for the data (maximum of 20 years returned)
registrationKey	BLS API registration key, required for V2 API. Freely available from here: http://data.bls.gov/registrationEngine/
catalog	boolean include catalog data (currently not returned); requires registrationKey
calculations	boolean include calculations data; requires registrationKey
annualaverage	boolean include annual average ("M13") data; requires registrationKey

Value

Returns a list with names status (character), responseTime (integer), message (list of character), Results (data.table). Results has a date field that marks the end of the month.

Examples

r <- bulast(c('LAUCN040010000000005', 'LAUCN040010000000006'))
r$Results

fcocquemas/bulast documentation built on May 16, 2019, 12:08 p.m.