eia_search: EIA API search data query
In mitcda/eiastats: Access Energy Information Agency statistics via the EIA API.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

Function to search the EIA data catalogue

1 2	eia_search(..., page_num = NULL, rows_per_page = NULL, simplify = TRUE)

`...`	any valid EIA API search argument. Valid search arguments are: `series_id`, `name` and `last_updated`. The function will return results for every search string and/or every search argument where multiple strings or multiple search arguments supplied—see Examples for relevant examples.
`page_num`	default page number (default: NULL).
`rows_per_page`	number of rows per page (default: NULL).

EIA search function

Search terms provided to arguments series_id and name must be character objects and last_updated searches must be date type objects (i.e. either Date, chron or POSIXt) specifying a date range to check. Note that if only one date value is provided, the query will search for all series updated on that date.

Returns the Series IDs and details as an R data frame.

David Mitchell <david.pk.mitchell@gmail.com>

  ## Series ID search
  eia_search(series_id = "PET.MB")

  ## Keyword search
  eia_search(name = "crude oil");

  ## Date search
  eia_search(last_updated = as.Date(c("2015-01-01", "2015-01-02")))