pdfetch

0.3.3

Fetch Economic and Financial Time Series Data from Public Sources

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13.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Abiel ReinhartFirst published 2014-03-0221 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Download economic and financial time series from public sources, including the St Louis Fed's FRED system, Yahoo Finance, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US Energy Information Administration, the World Bank, Eurostat, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the UK's Office of National Statistics, Deutsche Bundesbank, and INSEE.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("pdfetch", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("abielr/pdfetch")

Development version from abielr/pdfetch. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-pdfetch

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-pdfetch

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-pdfetch

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

92%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 74 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

13.6K

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Rank #3,786 · ~37/day · ~1.1K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ abielr/pdfetch

16Stars

7Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

38Commits

4Contributors

38 commits · Last activity 2024-12-17

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/abielr/pdfetch on 2026-07-19.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (13)

httr zoo xts XML lubridate jsonlite xml2 stringr magrittr dplyr tidyr readr quantmod

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 661 (65%)Rd 357 (35%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 5.0 median / 18 max

Test coverage

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Functions

17 12 exported

Complexity

5.5 avg / 18 max

Call network

17 nodes / 15 edges

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Abiel Reinhart

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Abiel Reinhart

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-03-02
Total releases: 21 / 12 yrs
License: GPL
Download size: 12 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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