makes a static (or snapshot request) from the Datastream DSWS server
staticRequest(
dwei = getDataStream(),
DSCode,
Expression = "",
endDate = Sys.Date(),
frequency = "D",
verbose = FALSE,
noCache = FALSE
)returns an array of the requested information
- A Datastream Client Interface object created with getDataStream
- an array of instruments eg c("RIO","MKS")
- the data to return eg MNEM or NAME
- the date of the request, or the string "TODAY"
- the frequency of the request
- whether to give messages during the request
- no longer used
staticRequest Function that returns a the value of
Expression for the array of instruments in DSCode from Datastream
parameters are