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license: MIT
title: 'fred: Access ''Federal Reserve Economic Data'''
version: 0.3.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.fred
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fred
abstract: 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'.
authors:
- family-names: Coverdale
  given-names: Charles
  email: charles.f.coverdale@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'fred: Access Federal Reserve Economic Data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Coverdale
    given-names: Charles
    email: charles.f.coverdale@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.3.0
  url: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/fred
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.fred
repository: https://charlescoverdale.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/charlescoverdale/fred
commit: 9f13e541f5a9718ef1d42ce69c674b1c3a035135
url: https://charlescoverdale.github.io/fred/
date-released: '2026-05-04'
contact:
- family-names: Coverdale
  given-names: Charles
  email: charles.f.coverdale@gmail.com