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This is the first CRAN submission of the Global Macro Database R package (GMD R).
- Fixed: moved
havenfrom Suggests to Imports (required for reading .dta files) - Aligned: version number with Python and MATLAB implementations (v1.2.0)
- Package installs correctly with dependencies
gmd(country = c("USA", "CHN"), variables = c("rGDP", "infl"))returns expected data- All unit tests pass
- Package: Global Macro Database R Package (GMD R)
- Authors: Mohamed Lehbib, Karsten Müller
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/KMueller-Lab/Global-Macro-Database-R
- Paper: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset (NBER Working Paper No. 33714).
The package fetches macroeconomic data from a public S3 bucket and GitHub mirror. No local data files included in package — all data downloaded on demand.