get_US_hpi: get National HPI data

In xdderekchen/rEconEnv: Get Economic Environment data like historical Home Price Index data and Interest data.

Description

get National Home Price Index data

Usage

get_US_hpi(usfile, from_year = NULL, out.Monthly = TRUE)

Arguments

usfile	The filename for the data downloaded from "https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Documents/HPI/HPI_AT_us_and_census.csv". If this is null, the function will connect to the download site.
from_year	Four digits representing the data starting year.
out.Monthly	TRUE means Monthly data, FASLE means Quarterly data.

Value

data in the data.table format with columns (State, Date, Index)

Examples

      #  get recent National (US) Home Price Index (monthly) since 2010
      ushpi_m    <- get_US_hpi(from_year=2010, out.Monthly=TRUE)
      #  get recent National (US) Home Price Index (quarterly) since 2000
      ushpi_Q    <- get_US_hpi(from_year=2000, out.Monthly=FALSE)

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