ds_puller: ds_puller

In bhuston/bhustonUtils: Ben Huston's collection of miscellaneous R functions

Description

A function for pulling Datastream data.

Usage

ds_puller(SECURITITES, FIELDS, fromDATE, toDATE, PERIOD, CURRENCY = NULL,
  REQUESTS_OFF = F)

Arguments

SECURITITES	A Datastream code.
FIELDS	A Datastream field.
fromDATE	Data start date.
toDATE	Data end date.
PERIOD	Data Frequency: "D", "M", "Q," "Y".
CURRENCY	"USD", "EUR", etc. or NULL for default.
REQUESTS_OFF	Should requests not be used?

Details

This function is a wrapper for the function ds() from from the package Rdatastream.

Value

a list with two dataframes, named Data and Metadata

Examples

ds_puller( SECURITITES = c("TOTMKUS"), FIELDS = "MV", fromDATE = "2014-09-14", toDATE = "2015-01-31", PERIOD = "D", CURRENCY = "EUR" )

bhuston/bhustonUtils documentation built on May 12, 2019, 8:29 p.m.