sources of wide range of historic and real-time macro data?

[Buurzgoth]

Hi everyone,
Could anyone point me to companies which provide both historic and current data for a wide arrange of macro data (i.e. ags acreage and yield estimates, interest rates, ags imports/exports, energy storage levels, stock/index/commodities prices, etc.)?

I believe Bloomberg has some (or all?) of that data, but do they also have API to pull in historical data? Do any other companies provide something like that?

I appreciate your help,
Buurz

 

[t482]

Check out R - nice plugins to St Louis FED

 

[trader#21]

A lot of good plugins are available in R, they will scrap data from a large no. of sites.

 

[Buurzgoth]

Regarding R: any good links for add-on packages which scrape the data from websites? I tried http://r-forge.r-project.org/ and http://cran.r-project.org/ but add-ons which scrape the data there seem to be quite limited.

I would also appreciate any other pointers regarding whether other companies (or Bloomberg) provides this data (paid data is also ok for me).

Thanks,
Buurzgoth