[R-SIG-Finance] Finance Data

[Jeff Ryan]

Try FRED

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search/vehicle/1
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search/retail+sales/1

library(quantmod)
> getSymbols("RETAIL", src="FRED")
[1] "RETAIL"
> head(RETAIL)
           RETAIL
1947-01-01   9583
1947-02-01   9852
1947-03-01   9769
1947-04-01   9947
1947-05-01  10061
1947-06-01  10146
>

HTH
Jeff

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, malcolm
Crouch<malcolm.croucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am looking for US GDP Figures , non-pharm Payrolls , retail sales , motor
> vehicle sales ect.
>
> Does anyone know where i can find data like that ?
>
> i have found :
>
> http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment    -  Labour Data
> http://www.economicindicators.gov/  - Some Data
> http://www.bea.gov/   -- Economic Data
>
> im still struggling to find a csv or excel data source for payrolls Motor
> Vehicle Sales and Retail Sales.
>
> Regards
>
> Malcolm
>
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