2010/10/3 Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>

In
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2010-September/002930.html
Henrique asked if it was possible to update gretl's Fed database
independently.

I have now added in CVS, under the "utils" subdirectory, two new C
programs, one to build a gretl database from data from the St
Louis Fed (FRED), and one to build a database from Federal Reserve
Board (FRB) data. These correspond to the databases fedstl.bin and
fedbog.bin respectively.

In both cases we use data in XML format, and to compile and run
these programs you'll need a full installation of libxml2 (library
and header files).

The current fedbog data file must be downloaded manually before
running the processor (see FRB/README).

The fedstl program, fred2db, downloads the current data
non-interactively, and it requires libcurl. If you want to use
this program you should get yourself an "API key" for FRED -- see
http://api.stlouisfed.org/api_key.html . This should be placed in
a file named "api.key" in the same directory as the program
fred2db.

Allin Cottrell

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