Economic Data Sources

Overview

This repository offers a programmatic way to interact with various economic data sources using popular programming languages such as R and Python

Features

• Functions to access different data sources easily
• support for R and Python
• user written functions.
  • I try not to use existing packages and/or libraries as they sometimes stop working as soon as the developer stops supporting them
• That said, there are several awesome packages already developed:

Alternative Resources

The list of other resources some of which this repository is based on is here, in no particular order:

• Packages
  • fredr package for R found here
  • fredapi package for Python found here

Useful Resources Used to make this Repo

• Youtube
  • Adam Getbags
  • Michael Cortes much of the python code for getting FRED in this repository is adapted from this video
  • Albert Rapp's guide to using r and httr2 library to get data through APIs deserves an honourable mention.