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@r-project.org> wrote: > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.