nepse_real: Nepal Stock Exchange Real Time Stock Quote

In nayanj/NPdata: Functions to Automate Downloading Financial and Economic Data Available Through Different Official Government of Nepal Websites

Description

nepse_real downloads the real time stock quotes from the Nepal Stock Exchange.

Usage

nepse_real(symbols = NULL)

Arguments

symbols

a character vector specifying the names of each symbol to be loaded

Details

The nepse_real downloads the real time stock quote for the given stock symbol(s) from Nepal Stock Exchange. The nepse_real will first check whether the entered symbol (s) is (are) valid stock symbol(s) by looking through all stocks symbols listed in NEPSE. The nepse_real will return an error if all entered symbol(s) is (are) not valid. The nepse_real will then check whether the call is made during trading hours of the NEPSE. If the call is not made during trading hours, it will return a dataframe with NA values along with warning for all valid entered symbol(s). If the call is made during trading hours, the nepse_real will then check whether valid symbol(s) is (are) traded. For valid symbol(s) not traded, it gives NA with warning. For example, if one of the entered symbol is not valid, then the row of dataframe associated with that valid but not traded symbol will have NA values.

Value

nepse_daily will return the object of class dataframe with 11 variables: trade_time, stock_symbol, last_trade_price, last_trade_volume, point_change, percent_change, open, high, low, volume, and previous_closing.

Author(s)

Nayan Krishna Joshi

References

http://www.nepalstock.com.np/

Examples

## Not run: 
# real time stock quote for invalid stock symbol JOSHI; issues an error with
# message nepse_real('JOSHI')

# real time stock quote for valid stock symbol HBL; if traded returns data frame
# with non-NA row
nepse_real("HBL")

# real time stock quote for valid stock symbol HBL and invalid stock symbol
# JOSHI; issues warning for an invalid symbol; for a valid symbol HBL; if traded
# , returns a data frame with single row with non-NA values
# nepse_real(c('HBL','JOSHI'))

# real time stock quote for valid stock symbols HBL and ADBL; if traded returns
# data frame non-NA rows
nepse_real(c("HBL", "ADBL"))

## End(Not run)

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