Federal Reserve Bank API
api.stlouisfed.org
api.stlouisfed.org
/savers/delete -- suppress interest rates to ruin savings (aliases: /banks/addcash, /stocks/pumpup )
/banks/bailout -- returns the "banker bonus" object
/fed/audit -- 404
Sometimes on HN we get a blog post announcing a new library, or cool hack, or something like that. When that happens, I usually crawl the author's about page and online presence.
I'm looking for embarrassing details that are unrelated to the post being discussed. Then, I usually leave a comment on HN to the effect of "man, this guy's fat and probably has never been touched by a woman."
No hate, only humor. It might sting but it's probably true also. Who cares if it's an irrelevant non-contribution?
library(quantmod)
getSymbols("CPIAUCNS", src="FRED")
library(ggplot2)
CPIPCT = data.frame(CPIAUCNS / lag(CPIAUCNS,12) * 100 -100)
CPIPCT$date= as.Date(rownames(CPIPCT))
CPIPCT <- tail(CPIPCT, 240)
CPI.m <- melt(CPIPCT, id = 'date')
ggplot(data=CPI.m, aes(x=date, y=value, colour=variable)) + ylab("YoY % Change") + theme_bw() + scale_x_date("") + geom_line(size=1.4) + opts(plot.background = theme_rect(colour = 'black', fill = '#CCCCEE', size = 1, linetype='solid'), legend.position="top") + scale_colour_manual("CPI", breaks=c("CPIAUCNS"), values = c("#0000CC"), labels=c('All Urban'))
Quick-R http://www.statmethods.net/index.html
R for Programmers http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming
SurviveR http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/09/survive-r/
Official intro http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html
Might depend on your definition of accessible LOL
Stack Overflow also very helpful - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r
Rseek http://www.rseek.org/
Many (most?) of the graphs you seen on econ blogs/columns/news articles, even popular ones, are generated using FRED.
GET /withdraw/{amount}/{currency}