getStockInfo: Retreives info for a stock
In alec25/smif.package: SMIF Risk Team Function Storage

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Functions Note See Also Examples

Function family to retrieve specific info for a given ticker.

getStockInfo(ticker, clean.mcap = TRUE, clean.sector = TRUE,
  auto.assign = FALSE, env = .GlobalEnv)

getStockInfo.name(ticker)

getStockInfo.sector(ticker, clean.sector = TRUE)

getStockInfo.exchange(ticker)

getStockInfo.last(ticker)

getStockInfo.industry(ticker)

getStockInfo.IPO.year(ticker)

getStockInfo.market.cap(ticker, clean.mcap = TRUE)

`ticker`	Character; the ticker for the stock you need info about
`clean.mcap`	Logical; should the Market.Cap element be returned cleaned. If `TRUE`: Market.Cap returns as a numeric. If `FALSE`: Market.Cap returns as a character string. Defaults to `TRUE`
`clean.sector`	Logical; should the Sector element be returned cleaned. Sector cleaning is done using `cleanSector`. Defaults to `TRUE`
`auto.assign`	Logical; should the results be assigned to `env`. If `FALSE` returns results. Defaults to `FALSE`
`env`	Environment; where to auto.assign objects. Setting `env=NULL` is equal to `auto.assign=FALSE`. Defaults to `.GlobalEnv`.

Based off of the TTR function stockSymbols it compensates for different data types and difficulty in accessing specific ticker data. Data retrieval depends on the TTR package, which retrieves its data from NASDAQ

Returns a list containing the elements:

`Name`	Character; name of the company
`Last.Trade`	Numeric; price of the last trade for the company
`Sector`	Character; sector of the company
`Industry`	Character; descriptive industry name
`IPO.Year`	Integer; year of the company's IPO
`Exchange`	Character; exchange that the company currently trades on. One of: `"AMEX"`, `"NASDAQ"`, `NYSE`.
`Market.Cap`	Numeric (or Character); current market capitalization for the company

getStockInfo.name: Loads the company name for the given ticker (if available)
getStockInfo.sector: Loads the sector for the given ticker, allows changing the clean.sector variable
getStockInfo.exchange: Loads the exchange for the given ticker (if available)
getStockInfo.last: Loads the last trade price for the given ticker
getStockInfo.industry: Loads the last descriptive industry name for the given ticker
getStockInfo.IPO.year: Loads the IPO year for the given ticker (if available)
getStockInfo.market.cap: Loads the current market capitalization for the given ticker (if available), allows changing the clean.mcap variable

Values for Sector may not be identical to sectors listed in getSectorWeights. Values for Sector, IPO.Year, and Market.Cap are occasionally missing and will default to NA. getStockInfo caches the data for stockSymbols in a hidden global variable (.ss) to massively increase speed on subsequent uses of the function.

Other data retrieval functions: getHoldings.SMIF, getSectorETF, getSymbols.SMIF

getStockInfo("NVDA")
getStockInfo.name("NVDA")
getStockInfo.sector("NVDA") 
getStockInfo.exchange("NVDA") 
getStockInfo.last("NVDA") 
getStockInfo.industry("NVDA") 
getStockInfo.IPO.year("NVDA") 
getStockInfo.market.cap("NVDA", clean.mcap=FALSE)