IShares_US: IShares_US class constructor

In skiamu/ETF: ETF data downloader

Description

the IShares_US class is a subclass of the IShares class and represents the ETF data from the US IShares website. It overrides some methods of the IShares class for taking into consideration American formatting specificity

Usage

IShares_US(summary_link = character(), get_constituents = TRUE,
  download_constituents_csv = FALSE, melted_constituents_list = list(),
  constituents_list = list(), tickers_to_keep = character(), ...,
  class = character())

Arguments

summary_link	link where the IShares summary data (in JSON format) is downloaded from. This is the data summarizing all the ETF of the IShares provider
get_constituents	TRUE for downloading ETF constituents, FALSE otherwise
download_constituents_csv	TRUE for saving the csv constituents files from the ETF web site, FALSE otherwise
melted_constituents_list	constituents data in melted format
constituents_list	constituents data in parsed format
tickers_to_keep	character vector containing the tickers to keep. One might want to keep just a subset of tickers due to storage constraints
...	subclass additional attributes
class	subclass names

Value

a new IShares_US object

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