get.trends: Getting Google Trends

In google-trends-v1/gtm: Functions for Economic Nowcasting with Google Trends Data

Description

The function downloads time series from Google Trends based on a list of queries provided by the user, and stores them as .csv files either under the current working directory or elsewhere as speficied otherwise.

Usage

get.trends(queries=NULL, geo="US", time="all", path=getwd())

Arguments

quries	a vector of quries to get Google Trends for.
geo	character, indicating the geographic location for the queries. Defualt is "US".
time	character, indicating the time span for the queries. Defualt is "all".
path	string, denoting the directory under which the csv files should be stored.

Details

Supported countries and their corresponding country codes can be found by calling data("countries"). For more details, refer to gtrends.

Author(s)

Zehua Wu

Examples

dir="~/Documents/Inflation"
data("US_Inflation_Queries")
inflation<-as.character(US_Inflation_Queries$Queries)
get.trends(queries=inflation, geo="US", time="all", path=dir)

google-trends-v1/gtm documentation built on June 5, 2019, 5:13 p.m.