chartbookR: Creation of chartbooks

In kilianreber/chartbookR: Creation of chartbooks

Description

Offers convenient download and transformation of Bloomberg and FRED (St. Louis Fed) data, plotting of customized charts, and saving to Powerpoint.

Details

The chartbookR package consists of four types of functions for chartbook creation:

• Data download: getBBG and getFRED

• Data transformation: Transform

• Customized plotting: LineChart, BarChart and HiChart

• Exporting to Powerpoint: makePPT

Notes

While all functions are based on existing packages, they make the chartbook creation an efficient and convenient process.

In order to use the getBBG function, you need to have a running Bloomberg terminal session. If this is not the case, you can still use getFRED to download freely available data from the St. Louis Fed database (https://fred.stlouisfed.org).

The HiChart function relies on highcharts (www.highcharts.com) - a Highsoft product which is not free for commercial and Governmental use.

Author/Maintainer

Kilian Reber [e-mail]

Contributors

Tryggvi Thoroddsen [e-mail]

See Also

https://github.com/kilianreber

Examples

#US Unemployment (FRED data only)
zoo <- getFRED(tickers = c('UNRATE', 'NROU'), names = c('Unemployment Rate', 'Natural Unemployment Rate'), na = FALSE)
LineChart(title = "US Unemployment", data = zoo, y1 = 'in percent', rec = TRUE)

#Global Unemployment Rates (requires Bloomberg)
zoo <- getBBG(tickers = c("EHUPUS", "EHUPEU", "EHUPGB", "EHUPJP Index"), names = c("United States", "Eurozone", "United Kingdom", "Japan"), freq = "QUARTERLY", time = "30Y")
LineChart(title = "Global Unemployment Rates", data = zoo, l1 = 1:4, y1 = "in %", y1_def = c(2,15,2), grid = TRUE, rec = TRUE)

#US Budget Balance vs. Unemployment Rate (requires Bloomberg)
zoo <- getBBG(tickers = c("EHUPUS", "EHBBUS"), na = FALSE, names = c("Unemployment", "Budget Balance"), start = as.Date("1969-01-01"))
LineChart(title = "US Budget Balance vs. Unemployment Rate", data = zoo, l1 = 1, d2 = 2, y1="Unemployment (%)", y2 = "Budget Balance (%GDP)", y2_def = c(-10,2,2), y2_rev = TRUE, leg = "top", rec = TRUE)

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