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how to ref data directly from bls.gov using their api

3 messages · Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000), Bert Gunter, Alan Feuerbacher

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Hello, 

I'd like to generate my own plots of various labor statistics using live data available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/api_features.htm

This is 10% an R question and 90 % a bls.gov api query question.  Please forgive me for making this request here but I would be truly grateful for anyone here on the R mailinglist who can show me how to write a line of R code that "fetches" the raw data anew from the bls.gov website every time it runs. 

Truest Thanks,
/Rich
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Please search on "Bureau of Labor Statistics" at rseek.org.  You will find
several packages and other resources there for doing what you want.

-- Ber

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:21 AM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via R-help <
r-help at r-project.org> wrote:

            

  
  
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On 1/29/2019 11:24 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Wow! Thanks!

Again most likely severe overkill for my simple need.

Alan
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