FFdownload (version 1.2.0)

FFlist: List available datasets on Kenneth French's website

Description

FFlist scrapes Kenneth French's data library and returns a data frame (or tibble) of available datasets with their names and download URLs. This replaces the listsave workaround in FFdownload and makes the dataset inventory directly usable with dplyr::filter() or View().

Usage

FFlist(exclude_daily = TRUE)

Value

A data frame (or tibble if the tibble package is available) with columns:

name

Dataset name, as used in inputlist and as key in the FFdata list (without the leading x_ prefix and without the _CSV.zip suffix).

file_url

Full HTTPS URL of the zip file.

is_daily

Logical flag indicating whether the dataset contains daily data. Only present when exclude_daily = FALSE.

Arguments

exclude_daily

logical. If TRUE (default), daily datasets are excluded from the returned list.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Browse all available monthly/annual datasets
fl <- FFlist()
head(fl, 10)

# Include daily datasets
FFlist(exclude_daily = FALSE)

# Filter with dplyr
library(dplyr)
FFlist() |> filter(grepl("Momentum", name))
}