plot_growth: Plot Investment Growth

In vandomed/stocks: Stock Market Analysis

Description

Useful for comparing the performance of several investments, over their full histories or mutual lifetimes.

Usage

plot_growth(
  prices = NULL,
  tickers = NULL,
  ...,
  gains = NULL,
  initial = 10000,
  plotly = FALSE,
  title = "Growth Over Time",
  base_size = 16,
  tooltip_size = 20,
  point_size = 1,
  line_size = 1,
  ticklabel_size = 8,
  legend_position = "right",
  return = "plot"
)

Arguments

prices	Data frame with one column of prices for each investment and a date variable named Date.
tickers	Character vector of ticker symbols that Yahoo! Finance recognizes, if you want to download data on the fly.
...	Arguments to pass along with tickers to load_gains.
gains	Data frame with one column of gains for each investment and a date variable named Date.
initial	Numeric value specifying value to scale initial prices to.
plotly	Logical value for whether to convert the ggplot to a plotly object internally.
title	Character string.
base_size	Numeric value to pass to theme_gray.
tooltip_size	Numeric value to pass to style.
point_size	Numeric value to pass to geom_point.
line_size	Numeric value to pass to geom_line.
ticklabel_size	Numeric value to pass to theme.
legend_position	Character string to pass to theme.
return	Character string specifying what to return. Choices are "plot", "data", and "both".

Value

Depending on return and plotly, a ggplot/plotly object, a data frame with the source data, or a list containing both.

A ggplot object.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Plot growth of $10k in VFINX and BRK-B
plot_growth(tickers = c("VFINX", "BRK-B"))

## End(Not run)

vandomed/stocks documentation built on July 22, 2020, 3:25 a.m.