get_historical_dividends: Get Historical Dividends

In srmatth/historicalInvesting: Historical Investing Simulator

Description

A function to get historical dividend information from dividendinformation.com

Usage

get_historical_dividends(tickers, start_date = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

tickers	A string identifying the ticker of the stock to get information on, all caps
start_date	A string identifying the date on which the information should start (ymd format), if NULL, returns all available information
verbose	Logical to determine if the function will output info as it runs

Value

a data frame with the following columns

• date = the date the dividend was paid

• amount_per_share = the amount per share in dollars

• ticker = the ticker of the stock/fund

srmatth/historicalInvesting documentation built on Dec. 23, 2021, 4:30 a.m.