ticker_dates: Get Yahoo! Finance Start/End Dates for One or More Tickers

In stocks: Stock Market Analysis

Description

This function just returns the start/end dates of tickers on Yahoo! Finance, so you can see what range of dates are available for one or more funds.

Usage

ticker.dates(tickers, from = "1950-01-01", to = Sys.Date(), ...)

Arguments

tickers	Character string or vector of character strings with ticker symbols that Yahoo! Finance recognizes.
from	Date or character string in form of date (e.g. "1950-01-03" for January 3, 1950), indicating the starting date for the period of interest.
to	Date or character string in form of date (e.g. "2015-03-09" for March 9, 2015), indicating the ending date for the period of interest.
...	Arguments to pass to getSymbols, which is called internally by this function.

Value

Data frame showing start date, end date, and number of trading days for each ticker.

Author(s)

Dane R. Van Domelen

References

Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-0940903.

Examples

# See what dates are available for Apple and Amazon
#ticker.dates(c("AAPL", "AMZN"))

Example output

Loading required package: rbenchmark

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