Package: fred
Title: Access 'Federal Reserve Economic Data'
Version: 0.3.0
Authors@R: person("Charles", "Coverdale", email = "charles.f.coverdale@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Provides clean, tidy access to economic data from the
        'Federal Reserve Economic Data' ('FRED') API
        <https://fred.stlouisfed.org/docs/api/fred/>. 'FRED' is
        maintained by the 'Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' and
        contains over 800,000 time series from 118 sources covering
        GDP, employment, inflation, interest rates, trade, and more.
        Dedicated functions fetch series observations, search for
        series, browse categories, releases, and tags, and retrieve
        series metadata. Multiple series can be fetched in a single
        call, in long or wide format. Server-side unit transformations
        (percent change, log, etc.) and frequency aggregation are
        supported, with readable transform aliases such as 'yoy_pct'
        and 'log_diff'. Real-time and vintage helpers (built on
        'ALFRED') return a series as it appeared on a given date, the
        first-release version, every revision, or a panel of selected
        vintages. An offline curated catalogue of around fifty popular
        series, NBER recession reference dates, and FOMC meeting dates
        support discoverability and event-study workflows. Default
        'plot' method shades NBER recession periods. Reproducibility
        helpers produce BibTeX or plain-text citations and YAML
        manifests with per-object hashes. Data is cached locally for
        subsequent calls. This product uses the 'FRED' API but is not
        endorsed or certified by the 'Federal Reserve Bank of St.
        Louis'.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-US
URL: https://charlescoverdale.github.io/fred/,
        https://github.com/charlescoverdale/fred
BugReports: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/fred/issues
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (>= 3.6.0), graphics, grDevices, httr2 (>= 1.0.0), stats,
        tools, utils
Suggests: knitr, nowcast, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: libssl-dev
Repository: https://charlescoverdale.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-05-04 19:11:36 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/fred
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 9f13e541f5a9718ef1d42ce69c674b1c3a035135
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-03 05:24:56 UTC; root
Author: Charles Coverdale [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Charles Coverdale <charles.f.coverdale@gmail.com>