WRDSDownload: Download data from WRDS

Description Usage Arguments

Description

Makes a query for the WRDS server, and saves the resulting dataset to disk.

Usage

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WRDSDownload(qstr, nobs = -1, con = wrds, out.dir = data.dir,
  dt.format = TRUE)

Arguments

qstr

A vector of three strings: (i) name of source dataset, (ii) query for data to be pulled, (iii) query for variable names or supplied variable names.

nobs

Number of observations to download (default is all).

con

Name of the connection (default wrds).

out.dir

Path to directory for saving downloaded dataset.

dt.format

Should the saved dataset be in data.table format? Default is TRUE.


laszlo-jakab/laszlor documentation built on May 31, 2019, 2:25 p.m.