View source: R/01.firm_register.R
find.firm | R Documentation |
firm
(legal person) using data from 'Yahoo! Finance'Tickers can be retrieved from [Yahoo! Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/lookup/).
This function requires the package yahoofinancer
to be installed. It is available from the CRAN by running install.packages('yahoofinancer')
.
find.firm(
ticker,
name = NULL,
ticker_is_id = TRUE,
legal_form = NULL,
sector_granularity = 1,
managers_remove_salutation_title = TRUE,
managers_only_surname = FALSE
)
ticker |
Firm's ticker. |
name |
Provide the firm's name. If not provided, |
ticker_is_id |
Should the ticker be used as the firm's id? |
legal_form |
The firm's legal form of the firm. Possible values:
- a string (e.g., 'LLC', 'Private', 'GmbH', etc.);
- |
sector_granularity |
Sector in which the firm operates. Possible values:
- |
managers_remove_salutation_title |
Yahoo! Finance provide salutation titles before the names of the managers. If this is |
managers_only_surname |
Yahoo! Finance provide first, middle, and last name of the managers. If this is |
An object of the S4 class firm
containing several fields, only the first one of which is mandatory:
name |
Name of the firm (or ticker if no name was provided) |
id |
Firm' ticker (if ticker_is_id was 'TRUE') or nothing (otherwise) |
legal_form |
Legal form of the firm (may be null) |
sector |
Sector in which the firm operates (may be null) |
revenues |
Yearly revenues |
capitalisation |
Capitalisation |
management |
Members of the board |
ownership |
Owner(s) |
shares |
Share owned by (each of) the owner(s) |
currency |
Currency |
Telarico, Fabio Ashtar
register.firm find.firms
# Registering Apple automatically
#| Results are subject to the correct functioning of the package `yahoofinancer`
#| and of the Yahoo! Finance API
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