GetFTSE100Stocks: Function to download the current components of the FTSE100...

In BatchGetSymbols: Downloads and Organizes Financial Data for Multiple Tickers

Function to download the current components of the FTSE100 index from Wikipedia

Description

This function scrapes the stocks that constitute the FTSE100 index from the wikipedia page at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index#List_of_FTSE_100_companies>.

Usage

GetFTSE100Stocks(
  do.cache = TRUE,
  cache.folder = file.path(tempdir(), "BGS_Cache")
)

Arguments

do.cache	Use cache system? (default = TRUE)
cache.folder	Where to save cache files? (default = file.path(tempdir(), 'BGS_Cache') )

Value

A dataframe that includes a column with the list of tickers of companies that belong to the FTSE100 index

Examples

## Not run: 
df.FTSE100 <- GetFTSE100Stocks()
print(df.FTSE100$tickers)

## End(Not run)

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