This function imports dictionaries for all possible FRED series. You can us this data to find series to search in the fred_symbols function.

dictionary_fred_ids(fred_file = NULL, return_message = TRUE)

Arguments

fred_file

the type of dictionary you wish to import

  • NULL, All: returns all dictionary data in a nested data frame (default)

  • series: returns a data frame of the series name, id, and attributes

  • tags: returns a data frame of the series id and their corresponding search tag

  • subindicies: returns a data frame with the parent series and any sub-indicies if they have them

return_message

TRUE return a message after data import

Value

a tibble

Details

This dictionary was indexed on January 22, 2017, please be aware that there may be new series added to FRED since then.

See also

Examples

dictionary_fred_ids(fred_file = NULL, return_message  = TRUE)