bboread: Read in BBO data sets from CME Historical Datamine

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

This function is simply a wrapper for the read_fwf function in the readr package. Inside the function, start and end positions of the raw fixed width file are specified as documented at http://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Best+Bid+Best+Offer+ASCII+Layout For performance, only the bare minimum columns are read in.

Usage

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Arguments

x

is a .txt file from the CME Group's historical datamine.

Value

A datatable.

Examples

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DATA <- bboread('data-raw/XCBT_C_FUT_110110.TXT')
head(DATA)

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