Hello,

 

I am trying to import a medical CPI index using fImport.  The command I
tried is:  
MED <- economagicImport(query = "blscu/CUUR0000SAM", source = '
<http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/'>
http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/', frequency = "monthly", colname
= "CPI").  It sort of works but it seems to have a problem reading the data
because it only returns data through 2007-12-01 when there is data all the
way to 2008-06-01.  If I go directly to the series at
<http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/blscu/CUUR0000SAM>
http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/blscu/CUUR0000SAM, the entire
series is there.   It appears that there are some errors in parsing the data
but I haven't been able to sort them out.

I am able to read the general CPI data from FRED using the quantmod library
getSymbols command but FRED only has a couple of CPI indicies which don't
include several of the ones I need.  Any ideas?   


Thanks!
Bill Jones


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