Get Historical Financial Data For Ticker Symbols

Get an historic of stock market data for financial ticker symbols, e.g., values at each closing day.

Usage

get_historic_light(
  symbols = "SAAB-B.ST",
  interval = "1d",
  range = "1mo",
  .verbose = F
)

Arguments

symbols

character A character string representing the financial indices to search for, e.g., ticker symbol(s).

interval

character, default = "1d". The interval between 2 rows of the time.series answered.

Valid interval values

"1m", "5m", "15m", "1d", "1wk", "1mo"

range

character, default = "1y". The period covered by the time series.

Valid range values

"1d", "5d", "1mo", "3mo", "6mo", "1y", "5y", "max"

.verbose

logical, default = TRUE. If TRUE, send messages to the console.

Value

A data.frame with a historical values :

symbol

character - Financial ticker symbol.

timestamp

POSIXct - Date of the observation (closing price).

close

numeric - Closing price of the asset.

Details

Return a data.frame with additional attributes:

n.currencies

integer - Number of unique currencies in the data.frame.

currencies

character - A vector of currency symbols in the data.frame (e.g., "BTC", "ETH", "USD").

exchange

character - A vector of exchange pairs (e.g., "BTC => USD"). If not applicable, NULL (no entry).

date.fetch

Date - The date when the data was retrieved, set using Sys.Date().

crypto

logical - TRUE if cryptocurrencies are present, otherwise FALSE.

date.begin

POSIXct - The oldest observation in the dataset.

date.end

POSIXct - The most recent observation in the dataset.

date.dif

numeric - The number of seconds between date.begin and date.end, equivalent of difftime value.

See vignette("Functions_summary", package = "financr")

Examples

histo_light <- get_historic_light(c("SAAB-B.ST", "AAPL"))