get_stocks: A wrapper over 'getSymbols' that maps over index components.

In Reckziegel/YahooTickers: Download Stock Constituents From Several Stock Indexes

Description

get_stocks() allows you to quickly download stock indexes from the the Yahoo Finance without having to run for loops.

Usage

get_stocks(
  tickers,
  from = "2010-01-01",
  to = Sys.Date(),
  periodicity = "daily",
  simplify = TRUE,
  otherwise = NULL,
  quiet = TRUE
)

Arguments

tickers	A character vector with the stock tickers.
from	A date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
to	A date in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
periodicity	One of: daily, weely or monthly.
simplify	If TRUE, a tibble is returned. If FALSE a list with two elements is returned: result: with the downloads that succeeded; error: with the stocks not covered by the Yahoo Finance. The defaul is TRUE.
otherwise	Argument passed to safely.
quiet	Argument passed to safely. A notification is showed whenever an error occurs. Default is TRUE.

Value

A tidy tibble if simplify = TRUE and a list of two components if simplify = FALSE.

See Also

safely()

Examples

# Get stocks from the Merval Stock Index (Argentina)
library(YahooTickers)
ticks <- get_tickers(merval)
get_stocks(ticks, periodicity = "monthly")

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