How can I get all available data series names from quantmod and Quandl?

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I am interested in a large amount of free data from FRED, OECD, BIS, World-bank, etc. All data are macro-economic in nature. I am not really interested in stock price data.

I would essentially like to construct a CSV table with all symbols available for me in quantmod and Quandl. I am almost certain this table would be useful for others as well.

            Symbol,   Title,  Units,  Frequency
              X         X       X       X
              Y         Y       Y       Y

I found a similar question which has no answer. How can i see all available data series from quantmod package?

Is there a way to do this instead of searching FRED, OECD and manually on quandl on country by country and variable by variable level?

Thank you.

https://github.com/cran/quantmod/tree/master/R – MichaelChirico Mar 29 '16 at 16:29 — MichaelChirico, Mar 29 '16 at 16:29
@joshuaulrich maintains `quantmod` – MichaelChirico Mar 29 '16 at 16:33 — MichaelChirico, Mar 29 '16 at 16:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '16 at 16:31

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Doe, on Quandl you can query the API for a dataset search, as described in this link:

https://www.quandl.com/docs/api#dataset-search

If you're using the Quandl package, you could use the Quandl.search function to build your query as specified in the above link. Here's the query from the link above using Quandl.search:

Quandl.search(query = "crude oil", page = 1, source = "DOE", silent = TRUE)

answered Mar 29 '16 at 16:31

spsaaibi

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Thank you, Quandl.search is a bit crude and does not really allow for a systematic way of capturing these time series. – J. Doe. Mar 30 '16 at 10:18

How can I get all available data series names from quantmod and Quandl?

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