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#' Get Yahoo! Finance Start/End Dates for Tickers
#'
#' Typically useful for determining a time period over which to compare several
#' funds.
#'
#'
#' @param tickers Character vector with ticker symbols that Yahoo! Finance
#' recognizes.
#' @param from Date or character string (e.g. \code{"2015-01-15"}.
#' @param to Date or character string (e.g. \code{"2016-01-30"}).
#'
#'
#' @return Data frame with ticker symbol, start date, end date, and number of
#' trading days for each ticker.
#'
#'
#' @examples
#' \dontrun{
#' # See what dates are available for Apple and Amazon
#' ticker_dates(c("AAPL", "AMZN"))
#' }
#'
#'
#' @references
#' Ryan, J.A. and Ulrich, J.M. (2017) quantmod: Quantitative Financial Modelling
#' Framework. R package version 0.4-12,
#' \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quantmod}.
#'
#'
#' @export
ticker_dates <- function(tickers, from = "1950-01-01", to = Sys.Date()) {
# Download prices from Yahoo! Finance using 'quantmod' package
prices <- list()
for (ii in 1:length(tickers)) {
prices[[ii]] <- as.matrix(getSymbols(Symbols = tickers[ii],
from = from, to = to,
auto.assign = FALSE))
}
# Create data frame summarizing results
ret <- data.frame(ticker = tickers,
start.date = as.Date(unlist(lapply(prices, function(x)
rownames(x)[1]))),
end.date = as.Date(unlist(lapply(prices, function(x)
rev(rownames(x))[1]))),
days = unlist(lapply(prices, function(x) nrow(x))),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
return(ret)
}
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