Economagic {fImport}R Documentation

Import Market Data from www.economagic.com

Description

Imports financial time series data from www.economagic.com.

Usage

economagicSeries(symbols, from = NULL, to = Sys.timeDate(), 
    nDaysBack = 366, ...)
    
economagicImport(query, file = "tempfile", source = NULL,
    frequency = c("auto", "quarterly", "monthly", "daily"),
    from = NULL, to = Sys.timeDate(), nDaysBack = NULL,
    save = FALSE, sep =";", try = TRUE)

Arguments

file a character string with filename, usually having extension ".csv", where to save the downloaded data.
frequency a character string, one of "auto", "quarterly", "monthly", or "daily", defining the frequency of the data records. Note, the import function tries autodetect the frequency of the time series to be dowwnloaded. This may fail, in such case specify the frequency explicitely.
from
nDaysBack the number of days back.
query a character string, denoting the location of the data at the web site.
save a logical value, if set to TRUE the downloaded data file will be stored under the path and file name specified by the string file. By default FALSE.
sep a charcter value specifying the column separator.
source a character string setting the URL of the source. If NULL, then the URL will be set automatically to its default value.
symbols
to
try a logical value, if set to TRUE the Internet access will be checked.
... optional arguments to be passed.

Details

Import data from www.economagic.com

Frequently requested data files from Economagic for the US economy include:

[query] Description:
var/leading-ind-long Index of Leading Economic Indicators
beana/t102l01 Real Gross Domestic Product
fedstl/trsp500 SP 500 Total Return
fedstl/gnp Gross National Product in Current Dollars
var/cpiu-long Consumer Price Index - All Urban Consumers
feddal/ru Unemployment Rate
fedstl/indpro Total Industrial Production Index
fedstl/exjpus+2 FX Rate: Japanese Yen to one US Dollar
fedstl/fedfunds+2 Federal Funds Rate
fedstl/mdiscrt+2 Discount Rate
fedbog/tcm30y+2 30-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate
fedstl/mprime+2 Bank Prime Loan Rate
fedstl/tb3ms+2 3-Month Treasury Bills - Secondary Market
fedstl/tb6ms+2 6-Month Treasury Bills - Secondary Market
fedbog/cm+2 30 Year Federal Home Loan Mortgages
var/west-texas-crude-long Price of West Texas Intermediate Crude

Value

The function economagicImport returns an S4 object of class fWEBDATA with the following slots:

@call the function call.
@data the data as downloaded formatted as a data.frame.
@param a character vector whose elements contain the values of selected parameters of the argument list.
@title a character string with the name of the download. This can be overwritten specifying a user defined input argument.
@description a character string with an optional user defined description. By default just the current date when the test was applied will be returned.


The function economagicSeries returns an S4 object of class timeSeries.

Note

Internet Download Functions:

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the service provider changes the data file format the download may fail and then it becomes necessary to modify and update the functions.

Author(s)

Diethelm Wuertz for the Rmetrics R-port.

Examples

## Not run: 
## economagicSeries -
   
   # USDEUR Foreign Exchange Rate:
   economagicSeries("fedny/day-fxus2eu", frequency = "daily")
   
   # USFEDFUNDS US FedFunds Rate:
   economagicSeries("fedstl/fedfunds+2", frequency = "monthly")
## End(Not run)

[Package fImport version 270.74 Index]