fred_updates {eFRED}

Fetch Series with Recent Updates

Description

Function that returns a data.frame containing information on series in FRED that were recently updated.

Usage

fred_updates(key = NULL, args = list())

Arguments

key

32 character lower-cased alpha-numeric character string

args

named list of other arguments passed to the API. See details.

Details

Arguments accept any of the following:

realtime_start, realtime_end

character string of format "YYYY-MM-DD" determining the real-time period. This is used to find historical series.

limit

integer between 1 and 1000 determining the maximum number of results to return.

offset

Non-negative integer

filter_value

Either "macro", "regional", or "all" *(the default)* describing the geographic type of the series

start_time, end_time

character string of format "YYYYMMDDHhmm" determining the time range, down to minutes, with which to filter the results

Value

data.frame with values for the series id, its title, start and end date of its observations, its frequency, units, whether it is seasonally adjusted, its popularity, when it was last updated, and the realtime start and end dates