Database by the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis with 700k+ economic time series

42 points by mpsq 5 years ago | 3 comments

Bostonian 5 years ago |

There is an R package fredr to access the FRED database: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html .

jl2718 5 years ago |

They keep on discontinuing politically inconvenient data that shows what a terrible job they are doing. But otherwise it’s a goldmine.

ErikBjare 5 years ago | |

Any examples of such data?

Bostonian 5 years ago |

There is an R package fredr to access the FRED database: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fredr/index.html .

jl2718 5 years ago |

They keep on discontinuing politically inconvenient data that shows what a terrible job they are doing. But otherwise it’s a goldmine.

ErikBjare 5 years ago | |

Any examples of such data?