get_sp500_tickers: Get S&P 500 Ticker Symbols as on a Particular Date

In vandomed/stocks: Stock Market Analysis

Description

Scrapes ticker symbols from the Wikipedia Revision history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies. Of course, the data may be imperfect.

Usage

get_sp500_tickers(date = Sys.Date())

Arguments

date	Date (or character vector that can be coerced).

Value

Character vector.

Examples

## Not run: 
# S&P 500 tickers as of today
head(get_sp500_tickers())

# S&P 500 tickers at the beginning of 2019
head(get_sp500_tickers("2019-01-01"))

## End(Not run)

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