dlPowerShares: download CSVs from PowerShares.com

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References

View source: R/getHoldings.powershares.R

Description

download CSVs from PowerShares.com

Usage

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  dlPowerShares(base.url = "http://www.invescopowershares.com/products/",
    event.target = "ctl00$FullPageOverrideContent$LinkButton1",
    action = "")

Arguments

base.url

the non-product-specific url

event.target

This is the first string inside of the javascript:__doPostBack() function that you will get when you right click the “Download” link and “Copy Link Address”

action

the product-specific part of the action url

Value

a csv downloaded from the PowerShares website

Author(s)

Garrett See with help from a user that requested to remain anonymous on http://stackoverflow.com

References

http://www.invescopowershares.com/products/


qmao documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:54 p.m.