download_french: Download from Ken French datalibrary

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

View source: R/DownloadData.R

Description

Download from Ken French datalibrary

Usage

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download_french(data_url, skip)

Arguments

data_url

subset of url specific to data, see details

skip

how many header rows in csv file to skip

Details

the base url for all downloads is 'http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/ftp/', each csv download has a unique url to add after the base, e.g., the data_url for momentum is 'F-F_Momentum_Factor_daily_CSV.zip'

Value

data.frame with time-series


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