download.scac.database: Download the Most Recent Version of the SCAC Filings Database

In br00t999/scac.database.downloader: Download the SCAC database

Description

Download the database of securities class action fillings from SCAC as published at: http://securities.stanford.edu/filings.html

Usage

download.scac.database(start.page = 1, debug = FALSE,
  update.cache = FALSE, cache.file = file.path(system.file(package =
  "scac.database.downloader", "data"), "scacdb.rdata"))

Arguments

start.page	numeric Which page of the filings html database to start scraping from
debug	logical Whether or not to be verbose
update.cache	logical If TRUE we download the entire database and update locally cached copy if FALSE we simply return the locally cached copy
cache.file	character path to .rdata file where most recent copy of the scac db is stored

Value

returns data.frame

br00t999/scac.database.downloader documentation built on May 25, 2019, 3:25 p.m.