Package: realtalk 2026.7.14

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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# 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:

On CRAN:

Conda:

cpidatainflationprices

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Last updated from:1cdd7ae428. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

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windows-develOK110
windows-releaseOK77
windows-oldrelOK98
wasm-releaseOK112

Exports:get_price_index

Dependencies:

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Price indexes available in the 'realtalk' packageavailable_price_indexes
Chained Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) datac_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) datacpi_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) datacpi_u_rs cpi_u_rs_annual cpi_u_rs_monthly_nsa
Experimental Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers X1 (CPI-U-X1) datacpi_u_x1 cpi_u_x1_annual cpi_u_x1_monthly_nsa
Get price index series as a data frameget_price_index
Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price indexpce pce_annual pce_monthly_sa pce_quarterly_sa
Example nominal US federal minimum wage dataus_minimum_wage us_minimum_wage_annual us_minimum_wage_monthly