BBG_fund_market: Retrieves fund historical market data from Bloomberg.

In bautheac/pullit: Pulling financial data from Bloomberg made easy

Description

Provided with a set of Bloomberg fund tickers and a time period, queries Bloomberg for the corresponding fund historical market data.

Usage

BBG_fund_market(tickers, start, end, verbose = T, ...)

Arguments

tickers	a chatacter vector. Specifies the Bloomberg fund tickers to query data for.
start	a scalar character vector. Specifies the starting date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
end	a scalar character vector. Specifies the end date for the query in the following format: 'yyyy-mm-dd'.
verbose	a logical scalar vector. Should progression messages be printed? Defaults to TRUE.
...	optional parameters to pass to the bdh function from the Rblpapi package used for the query (options parameter).

Value

An S4 object of class FundMarket.

See Also

• The fields dataset in the BBGsymbols package (finRes suite) for details on the Bloomnerg fields used here.

• Helper datasets in the fewISOs and GICS packages (finRes suite).

Examples

## Not run: 

    BBG_fund_market(tickers = c("SPY US Equity", "IVV US Equity"),
      start = "2000-01-01", end = as.character(Sys.Date()))

  
## End(Not run)

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