getCommercialPaper: Get commercial paper history.

In mrbcuda/usfrbcp: Fetch and Extract Commercial Paper History

Description

Fetches the US Federal Reserve Bank's commercial paper data, parses and returns as list.

Usage

getCommercialPaper()

Details

Downloads from the Federal Reserve Bank's web service a zip file of several XML and XSD files related to commercial paper rates, volumes, and outstanding quantities over time. Extracts the commercial paper XML files in a temporary directory and parses its XML into a list. The web service URL used is http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Output.aspx?rel=CP&filetype=zip.

Value

Returns the many data series as a list of class usfrbcp.

Author(s)

Matt Barry <[e-mail]>

See Also

getCommercialPaperRates for extracting commercial paper rates, getCommercialPaperRatesOld for extracting old commercial paper rates, getCommercialPaperVolumes for extracting commercial paper volumes, getCommercialPaperOutstanding for extracting commercial paper outstanding, getCommercialPaperOutstandingOld for extracting old commercial paper outstanding, getCommercialPaperYearend for extracting commercial paper outstanding at year end, mergeSeries for merging list elements into a data frame.

Examples

cp <- getCommercialPaper()
summary(cp)

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