GetSP500Stocks: Function to download the current components of the SP500...

In BatchGetSymbols: Downloads and Organizes Financial Data for Multiple Tickers

Function to download the current components of the SP500 index from Wikipedia

Description

This function scrapes the stocks that constitute the SP500 index from the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S

Usage

GetSP500Stocks(
  do.cache = TRUE,
  cache.folder = file.path(tempdir(), "BGS_Cache")
)

Arguments

do.cache	Use cache system? (default = TRUE)
cache.folder	Where to save cache files? (default = file.path(tempdir(), 'BGS_Cache') )

Value

A dataframe that includes a column with the list of tickers of companies that belong to the SP500 index

Examples

## Not run: 
df.SP500 <- GetSP500Stocks()
print(df.SP500$tickers)

## End(Not run)

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