dow30: Dow 30 Stock Quotes This data frame contains stock quotes for...

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Description

Dow 30 Stock Quotes

Usage

data(dow30)

Format

A data frame with 7482 observations on the following 8 variables.

symbol

A factor representing the date for each quote

Date

Date on which the quote was taken

Open

A numeric vector representing the opening price for each stock on each day

High

A numeric vector representing the high price for each stock on each day

Low

A numeric vector representing the low price for each stock on each day

Close

A numeric vector representing the closing price for each stock on each day

Volume

A numeric vector representing the number of shares traded for each stock on each day

Adj.Close

A numeric vector representing the closing price for each stock on each day

Details

This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.

Source

The data in this data frame was obtained from Yahoo! Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com/.

Examples

data(dow30)
summary(dow30)

Example output

Loading required package: nutshell.bbdb
Loading required package: nutshell.audioscrobbler
     symbol             Date           Open             High       
 MMM    : 252   2008-09-22:  30   Min.   :  0.99   Min.   :  1.01  
 AA     : 252   2008-09-23:  30   1st Qu.: 19.66   1st Qu.: 20.19  
 AXP    : 252   2008-09-24:  30   Median : 30.16   Median : 30.75  
 T      : 252   2008-09-25:  30   Mean   : 36.25   Mean   : 36.93  
 BAC    : 252   2008-09-26:  30   3rd Qu.: 51.68   3rd Qu.: 52.45  
 BA     : 252   2008-09-29:  30   Max.   :122.45   Max.   :122.88  
 (Other):5970   (Other)   :7302                                    
      Low             Close            Volume            Adj.Close     
 Min.   :  0.27   Min.   :  0.75   Min.   :1.336e+06   Min.   :  0.75  
 1st Qu.: 19.15   1st Qu.: 19.65   1st Qu.:1.111e+07   1st Qu.: 19.38  
 Median : 29.55   Median : 30.10   Median :1.822e+07   Median : 29.41  
 Mean   : 35.53   Mean   : 36.24   Mean   :5.226e+07   Mean   : 35.64  
 3rd Qu.: 50.84   3rd Qu.: 51.58   3rd Qu.:4.255e+07   3rd Qu.: 50.97  
 Max.   :121.62   Max.   :122.11   Max.   :2.672e+09   Max.   :122.11  
                                                                       

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