dateAAIISIPro: Get the Data Version of the AAII StockInvestor Pro

In AndreMikulec/econModel: Meaningful Social and Economic Data from ALFRED and elsewhere

Description

The American Association of Individual Investors has a software product called StockInvestor Pro. Historically periodically e.g. monthly, but recently daily, new updated corporate data of of 6000+ companies is updated and re-available. The software includes (much) information from the following: income statements, cash flow statements, balance sheets, stock prices, analyst ratings, and company general information. This function reads the file Setup.dbf file. It is a dBASE file. Note, the .dbf file can be opened interactively (and read) using/through LibreOffice Calc, R package foreign function read.dbf, and other applications that use the file shapefil.h written by Frank Warmerdam.

Usage

dateAAIISIPro(From = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Stock Investor/Professional")

Arguments

From	String. Directory of AAII StockInvestor Pro installation directory. Defaults to "C:/Program Files (x86)/Stock Investor/Professional".

Value

String. Date of the SIPro update, in days since the UNIX epoch (birthday of UNIX: January 1st, 1970). Returned is the "Current as of date" of StockInvestor Pro. This is the same data found by doing Help -> About (and then reading the bottom line).

References

foreign/src/shapefil.h https://github.com/cran/foreign/blob/master/src/shapefil.h

Index of /shapelib/ http://download.osgeo.org/shapelib/

Examples

## Not run: 
dateAAIISIPro()
[1] "18565"

zoo::as.Date(as.integer(dateAAIISIPro()))
[1] "2020-10-30"

## End(Not run)

AndreMikulec/econModel documentation built on June 30, 2021, 9:48 a.m.