mget_symbolData: Get close price and additional data for multiple symbols.

In jeanmarcgp/xtsanalytics: A library of functions to do advanced analytics of time series data (xts matrices).

Description

This function scrapes the yahoo quote page for certain types of information. It gets the most recent close price and several other information related to each symbol. The information is compiled in a data frame where each row is a symbol, and columns correspond to data related to the symbols.

Usage

mget_symbolData(symbols)

Arguments

symbols

A vector of symbol names (character vector) to get symbol data for.

Details

Data fetched from the yahoo page include:

• Symbol

• Inception Date

• Description on Yahoo

• Close Price

• Average Volume

• Net Assets

Value

Returns a data frame where each row corresponds to a symbol, and each column corresponds to a specific data field found on the Yahoo page.

jeanmarcgp/xtsanalytics documentation built on May 19, 2019, 12:38 a.m.