--- title: How much have prices increased? | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of how to download Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the FRED API using R and visualize cumulative inflation across eight major categories... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-have-prices-increased--lq07dexgd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How much have prices increased? | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of how to download Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the FRED API using R and visualize cumulative inflation across eight major categories... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-much-have-prices-increased--lq07dexgd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LQ07DexGd.png og:image:alt: How much have prices increased? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How much have prices increased? **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of how to download Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the FRED API using R and visualize cumulative inflation across eight major categories since December 2016. The overall CPI rose 37.1%, with Housing leading at 44.8%, followed by Transportation at 43.5% and Food at 39.9%. Medical Care saw the lowest increase at 25.9%. The post includes full R code using tidyquant, ggplot2, and ggrepel to fetch, process, and chart the data, along with a brief explanation of how CPI is constructed and its limitations around quality adjustments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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