recessions: Recessions
In matthewstern/ggrecessions: Add recession or other background data to ggplots

Description Usage Arguments Format Functions Source Examples

The fetch_recessions() function downloads the current recessions table from the NBER website and formats it for use by other functions in this package. The recessions table is the function's output, stored within the package for easy access.

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recessions

fetch_recessions(url = NULL, quietly = FALSE)

`url`	Char, the web location of the NBER machine-readable CSV file. The default, `NULL`, uses the most recently identified URL known to the package development team.
`quietly`	Logical, suppresses messages.

A data frame with the following variables:

start_char, end_char: Easily readable labels for the beginning and end of the recession.
start, end: Recession Dates expressed in R datetime format, using the first day of the specified month.
ongoing: Logical. Whether or not the recession is ongoing as of the latest available NBER data.

fetch_recessions: Function for fetching recessions from NBER website

https://www.nber.org/data/cycles/cycle dates pasted.csv

recessions <- fetch_recessions()

## Not run: 
  # package maintainers run:
  recessions <- fetch_recessions()
  usethis::use_data(recessions, overwrite = TRUE)

## End(Not run)