fedeconseries

The goal of fedeconseries is to obtain US federal reserve(St. Louis Fed) economic data. Reserach use only.

Installation

You can install the released version of fedeconseries from github with:

library(devtools)
install_github("harrysun26/fedeconseries")

Usage

A more concrete example can be found in the vignette: https://harrysun26.github.io/fedeconseries/articles/the_Vignettes.html

Functions in package:

• search_fedeconseries("unemployment", search_type = 'full_text',realtime_start = NULL, realtime_end = NULL)

  This function returns the unique identifier(economic variable in database) used in functions get_econ_series and get_fedeconseries. Here, we pass keyword “unemployment” into the function.

• get_econ_series("INDPRO", "indpro", observation_start = "2009-03-01", observation_end = "2009-03-01")

  This function returns real value(raw data) of economic series. No adjustments. Here we pass “INDPRO” as keyword and “indpro” as a rename, with observation start and end date.

• get_fedeconseries("UNRATE", "unemployment",observation_start = "2013-03-01", observation_end = "2013-03-30",realtime_start = "2015-02-02", realtime_end = "2015-02-02")

  This function returns unemployment data of US, with varying available date adjustment. Here we pass the keyword “UNRATE”, rename as “unemployment”, with observation start and end date, and research (real) start and end date.

Terms of use

When using the FRED© API, you are agreeing to be bound by the FRED© API Terms of Use, see https://research.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/terms_of_use.html.

History

• 02.02.2020: Version 0.1.0
• 02.08.2020: Version 0.1.1

Example

Please check the “Usage” link above(package vignette).