Package: realtalk 2026.5.13

Ben Zipperer

realtalk: Price index data for the US economy

Makes it easy to use US price index data like the CPI.

Authors:Ben Zipperer [aut, cre], Economic Policy Institute [cph, fnd]

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NEWS

# Install 'realtalk' in R:

install.packages('realtalk', repos = c('https://economic.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/economic/realtalk/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://economic.github.io

Datasets:

available_price_indexes - Price indexes available in the 'realtalk' package
c_cpi_u_annual - Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) data
c_cpi_u_extended_annual - Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
c_cpi_u_extended_monthly_nsa - Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
c_cpi_u_extended_monthly_sa - Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
c_cpi_u_extended_quarterly_nsa - Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
c_cpi_u_extended_quarterly_sa - Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers
c_cpi_u_monthly_nsa - Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) data
c_cpi_u_quarterly_nsa - Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) data
cpi_u_annual - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data
cpi_u_monthly_nsa - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data
cpi_u_monthly_sa - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data
cpi_u_quarterly_nsa - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data
cpi_u_quarterly_sa - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data
cpi_u_rs_annual - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers Research Series (CPI-U-RS) data
cpi_u_rs_monthly_nsa - Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers Research Series (CPI-U-RS) data
cpi_u_x1_annual - Experimental Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers X1 (CPI-U-X1) data
cpi_u_x1_monthly_nsa - Experimental Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers X1 (CPI-U-X1) data
pce_annual - Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index
pce_monthly_sa - Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index
pce_quarterly_sa - Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index
us_minimum_wage_annual - Example nominal US federal minimum wage data
us_minimum_wage_monthly - Example nominal US federal minimum wage data

On CRAN:

cpi data inflation prices

4.66 score 5 stars 1 packages 19 scripts 1 exports 0 dependencies

Last updated from:d042c5d511. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	163
source / vignettes	OK	187
linux-release-x86_64	OK	126
macos-release-arm64	OK	142
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	92
windows-devel	OK	94
windows-release	OK	91
windows-oldrel	OK	83
wasm-release	OK	102

Exports:get_price_index

Dependencies:

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Price indexes available in the 'realtalk' package	available_price_indexes
Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) data	c_cpi_u c_cpi_u_annual c_cpi_u_monthly_nsa c_cpi_u_quarterly_nsa
Extended Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)	c_cpi_u_extended c_cpi_u_extended_annual c_cpi_u_extended_monthly_nsa c_cpi_u_extended_monthly_sa c_cpi_u_extended_quarterly_nsa c_cpi_u_extended_quarterly_sa
Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) data	cpi_u cpi_u_annual cpi_u_monthly_nsa cpi_u_monthly_sa cpi_u_quarterly_nsa cpi_u_quarterly_sa
Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers Research Series (CPI-U-RS) data	cpi_u_rs cpi_u_rs_annual cpi_u_rs_monthly_nsa
Experimental Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers X1 (CPI-U-X1) data	cpi_u_x1 cpi_u_x1_annual cpi_u_x1_monthly_nsa
Get price index series as a data frame	get_price_index
Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index	pce pce_annual pce_monthly_sa pce_quarterly_sa
Example nominal US federal minimum wage data	us_minimum_wage us_minimum_wage_annual us_minimum_wage_monthly